On 11/10/24 12:14 PM, Charlie Dennett wrote:
When upgrading following the instructions at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/ <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/>, make sure you perform the optional post upgrade tasks like Clean up retired packages, clean up old packages, clean up old keys, clean up old sym-links. Doing that can reduce your chances of future problems. I've been following those instructions for longer than I can remember and it's always worked for me. [snip]
Now hol-ol-ol-d your horses there. I've been doing as suggested above for a few years now. Early on, I don't remember when or by whom, I was warned by someone on this list that the dangling sym-link clean-up was risky, though I'm not aware of it causing me any problems. Last month, retired package clean-up "critically wounded" my stand-alone workstation. It left me with console mode only. It took a long and difficult thread plus patient, hard help in this list to get me back to the console login and some functionality. There are still real problems, which I will post on this list when I have time. I'm not suggesting not doing post-upgrade steps. I'm saying be very careful! -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
