Re: Removal of Modular repos broke upgrades to Fedora 39: What now?

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On Fri, 2023-08-04 at 12:16 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like the public 'rawhide' location *does* still have a Modular
> > tree:
> > 
> > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Modular/
> > 
> > but there's still a problem there, because...it's now just stale data.
> > That is the Modular tree from the 20230802.n.0 compose, and unless
> > someone does something about it, it always *will* be. Keeping the last
> > set of modular repos frozen in amber forever doesn't seem like the best
> > permanent situation :)
> 
> Do we still have the problem where dnf will preferrentially pick
> content from a modular repo, even if it has older NEVR than the
> same package name in a non-modular repo ?
> 
> IOW, would the existance of this stale modular content, prevent
> the upgrade tools from correctly bringing in content from the
> new release ?

Well, I think only if you have a module explicitly enabled. We dropped
the whole "ooh, if this is in a module, pull it in and enable the
module!" thing aaaaaaages ago, it only lasted like one release I think.
IIRC, anyway.

But yes, if you have any modules enabled, the experience is going to be
bad.
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