Adam
I believe in the KISS principle. Do a simplification change that does it for the great number of new Fedora users who are coming from other desktop/laptop/business systems. Linux is gaining #users.
Let us make their migration to Fedora for end-user people as simple as possible for this function.
Leslie Satenstein
On Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 04:28:44 p.m. EDT, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2024-05-02 at 15:41 -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote:
> On 5/2/24 14:34, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > While I follow the philosophy of updating
> > regularly, there are likely some who install Fnn, and
> > never update, and then would expect an update to
> > Fnn+2 to work without issue(s).
> > --
>
> The CLI update strongly suggests doing 'dnf update --refresh' before
> system-upgrade. It doesn't require it though.
>
> I always thought it's an odd workflow; why doesn't it just force it?
> While it might take a long while to complete on a stale system, it's
> recommended anyway, isn't it?
I would actually hugely prefer we amend that to say `dnf --refresh
offline-upgrade download; dnf offline-upgrade reboot` or so. It's a
footgun as it stands.
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> On 5/2/24 14:34, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > While I follow the philosophy of updating
> > regularly, there are likely some who install Fnn, and
> > never update, and then would expect an update to
> > Fnn+2 to work without issue(s).
> > --
>
> The CLI update strongly suggests doing 'dnf update --refresh' before
> system-upgrade. It doesn't require it though.
>
> I always thought it's an odd workflow; why doesn't it just force it?
> While it might take a long while to complete on a stale system, it's
> recommended anyway, isn't it?
I would actually hugely prefer we amend that to say `dnf --refresh
offline-upgrade download; dnf offline-upgrade reboot` or so. It's a
footgun as it stands.
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Adam Williamson (he/him/his)
Fedora QA
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