Chris Murphy composed on 2017-11-11 14:17 (UTC-0700): > Felix Miata wrote: >> dnf upgrade --releasever=27 > I do not grok that command, for upgrades (F26 -> F27) you use > something like this: > $ sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever 27 > And by default this includes --distro-sync option per documentation: > https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-extras/blob/master/doc/system-upgrade.rst >> That was after attempted versionlocking, but apparently there's no way to lock >> out unwanted packages with dnf anything like there is in Debian or Mageia >> (unintuitive, manually edited configfile) and openSUSE (simple: zypper al >> <packagename>). > I think what you want is to switch repos and then just distrosync to > change (upgrade) the versions of packages that you have, rather than > switching to a new version of the *product*. If you want Fedora > Workstation upgraded via system-upgrade or Software Update, I'm pretty > sure the design is you get everything you would have gotten had you > clean installed that version *plus* any extras you've previously > installed yourself. It was late and I was tired. The above command I wrote was a considerable over-simplification of what I actually did, on a host last updated around 4 months ago. Here's the relevant .bash_history excerpt: dnf remove kernel-core-4.11.0 dnf versionlock add mc dnf clean all df / man dnf dnf update --releasever=27 dnf* rpm* system* libsol* hawke* fedor* glibc* dnf update --releasever=27 --allowerasing kd* kf* q* plas* x* gl* y* z* dnf update --releasever=27 --allowerasing m* n* o* r* s* t* u* v* w* dnf update a* b* c* d* e* f* g* h* i* j* rpmqa grub dnf remove grubby dnf versionlock add grub2-common dnf update a* b* c* d* e* f* g* h* i* j* dnf versionlock add grub2-tools-minimal rpmqa prober dnf remove os-prober dnf update a* b* c* d* e* f* g* h* i* j* dnf versionlock add grubby dnf versionlock --help dnf update a* b* c* d* e* f* g* h* i* j* dnf update p* dnf update rpmqa grub* dnf remove grub2-common grub2-tools-minimal grubby os-prober I've yet to *find* a simple way to upgrade Fedora that doesn't hit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032541 (fill / with rpms and refuse to continue for lack of room). That in conjunction with: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420743 "@>96DPI Gecko browsers no longer utilize KDE's desktop font configuration since built with GTK3" and https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/grub-legacy-delay-of-more-than-2-minutes-loading-initrd-from-ext4-filesystem-4175599620/ "Grub Legacy: delay of more than 2 minutes loading initrd from EXT4 filesystem" (latest F25, F26 and F27 kernels, and Tumbleweed's, on last night's testing host big41, suffer this) and having been hit by Hurricanes Hermine and Irma and consequent lack of free time, has considerably reduced incentive and ability to contribute. [1] rpmqa is a generic alias for 'rpm -qa | sort | grep ' -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
