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

Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:20:51 +1100



    On 12/11/24 09:37, Patrick O'Callaghan
      wrote:

    
      On Mon, 2024-11-11 at 14:04 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:

      
        On 11/11/24 1:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:

        
          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?

        
        I have never done any of those post-install processes.


      Not even 'rpmconf' to merge .rpmnew files?
    
    Traditionally no, I have never understood the functionality involved
    with those when creating an rpmsave or rpmnew, when those files are
    created relative to config files that I have never updated. Apart
    from that, if I have never updated the config file or never even
    looked at the config file, how am I supposed to know which version
    should be kept?

    
    regards,

    Steve

    
poc

    
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