Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

[Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/24 11:01, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:

> On
>       11/10/24 13:46, Stephen Morris wrote:
>       
> > > Note: dnf dose not use
> > >           /etc/redhat-release as it release
> > >           
> > >           version.  It uses
> > >           
> > >              /usr/share/licenses/fedora/fedora-release-common*
> > >           
> > >         
> >         On my F41 system upgraded from F40, it is using
> >         /etc/redhat-release to store its release version which for me
> >         contains Fedora release 41 (Forty One)
> >         
> >           and /usr/share/fedora/fedora-release-common contains nothing
> >         but a legal txt file and a license file, there is no fedora
> >         sub-folder of licenses.
> >         
> >         Command "rpm -qa /*fedora-release-common/*" produces nothing.
> >         
> >       
>       
>       
>       After I got it all cleaned up, I did not have them either.
>       
>     
    Am I doing something wrong then when I did not have to do any
    cleanup for the system to be in this state?
    As a side issue, I might be treading on thin ice here, I have never
    done any of the post-install processes on any version of Fedora.
    Until I saw references to them in this list when I was on F39, I
    didn't know they existed to even go looking for them.
    I did one try dnf autoremove and that wanted to remove half my
    system, so I abandoned that process, and issuing it now wants to
    remove 299 packages, some of which look to be old from their names,
    but how do I know whether they are actually redundant or whether I
    am using something from them. For example, it wants to remove
    package f36-backgrounds-gnome, how do I know whether I am using a
    background from that package hence should not be removed?
    
    regards,
    Steve

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