Re: how to switch from rawhide to current, following branch

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 01:44:42PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> The closest thing I've found for a guide on this is:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Upgrade_from_existing_stable_install
> 
> Specifically
> "Q: How do I get out of Rawhide again? I want to switch to the
> Branched release or a stable release."
> 
> The problem is the suggested commands depending on 'su -c' don't work
> by default on at least Workstation because the root user is disabled;
> and is not required to be enabled even on Server. And modifying the
> command to work with sudo, it gets tripped up on the parentheses:
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> 
> I've tested the following, and propose it as a change to the wiki:
> 
> --
> 
> sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled
> fedora,fedora-modular,updates,updates-modular,updates-testing,updates-testing-modular
> sudo dnf config-manager --set-disabled rawhide,rawhide-modular
> sudo dnf update
> sudo dnf distro-sync
> sudo reboot
> 
> This should work for systems updated before or after branch. The more
> confusion with mixed Rawhide and current release packages, the more
> distro-sync will have to clean up.

+1, its a wiki, be bold and change it. :) 

We could I suppose also advocate now offline upgrades with dnf, but that
would be more steps, so probibly not worth it. 

kevin

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