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
> 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-dela...
"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 '
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