Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:28:19PM GMT, Adam Williamson 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

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-05 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
AdamI 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

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-03 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 5/2/24 16:28, Adam Williamson 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

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-02 Thread Adam Williamson
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

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-02 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
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

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-02 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 6:14 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > I don't believe GNOME Software enforces this. (There was some debate about > whether doing two updates in a row was really useful, if I remember.) That > may be a big source of pain. As I recall, *much* of the time it does not matter, but

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-05-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 11:42:57AM +0200, Jan Kolarik wrote: > upgrades from F41 to F42. Before executing the system-upgrade, users are > anyway advised to ensure that all installed packages are fully updated. I don't believe GNOME Software enforces this. (There was some debate about whether

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-29 Thread Jan Kolarik
Hi Adam, > Just to follow up on this: the Kiwi container build test failure > pointed to some changes that will be required to the Fedora kiwi config > when this change lands. I have filed a PR for that - > https://pagure.io/fedora-kiwi-descriptions/pull-request/46 - which > should only be

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 11:16:28AM GMT, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2024-04-26 at 08:56 +0200, Jan Kolarik wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > > Personally, I think this is a beta requirement. > > > > > > > IIUC the Fedora 41 Beta requirement is to successfully upgrade the system > > from Fedora

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2024-04-24 at 22:56 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 07:42 +0200, Jan Kolarik wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > We've prepared a side-tag for testing Rawhide with dnf5 as the default > > package manager. Instructions for installing the packages from the side-tag > >

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2024-04-26 at 08:56 +0200, Jan Kolarik wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Personally, I think this is a beta requirement. > > > > IIUC the Fedora 41 Beta requirement is to successfully upgrade the system > from Fedora 40, as mentioned here: >

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-26 Thread Maxwell G
Hi Jan, On Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 08:46 +0200, Jan Kolarik wrote: > Hi Maxwell, > > This contains an update to dnf 5.2.0 which has breaking API changes. I did > > not > > see these communicated anywhere and the Change Proposal did not mention > > that > > the update would include a major version

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-26 Thread Michael J Gruber
Jan Kolarik venit, vidit, dixit 2024-04-26 08:56:48: > Hi Kevin, > > Personally, I think this is a beta requirement. > > > > IIUC the Fedora 41 Beta requirement is to successfully upgrade the system > from Fedora 40, as mentioned here: >

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-26 Thread Jan Kolarik
Hi Kevin, Personally, I think this is a beta requirement. > IIUC the Fedora 41 Beta requirement is to successfully upgrade the system from Fedora 40, as mentioned here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_upgrade_dnf_current_workstation. So this still relates to the dnf4 package, which

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-26 Thread Jan Kolarik
Hi Maxwell, This contains an update to dnf 5.2.0 which has breaking API changes. I did > not > see these communicated anywhere and the Change Proposal did not mention > that > the update would include a major version bump at the same time as the > switch to > dnf5 as default. > You're right; we

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 11:42:57AM GMT, Jan Kolarik wrote: > Hello Michael, > > Does this mean that distro-upgrade from F41 to F42 is supposed to work > > at F41 release time (ideally at beta time)? > > > > Yes, the system-upgrade functionality should be available before the Fedora > 41 >

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-25 Thread Maxwell G
Hi Jan, On Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 07:42 +0200, Jan Kolarik wrote: > We've prepared a side-tag for testing Rawhide with dnf5 as the default > package manager. Instructions for installing the packages from the side-tag > can be found at the following link [1]. > [1]

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-25 Thread Jan Kolarik
Hello Michael, Does this mean that distro-upgrade from F41 to F42 is supposed to work > at F41 release time (ideally at beta time)? > Yes, the system-upgrade functionality should be available before the Fedora 41 release date. We're planning extensive testing for this, including a Fedora Testing

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-25 Thread Jan Kolarik
Hi Mattia, Yep, there's a dnf5-testing COPR that serves exactly this purpose: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf5-testing. Jan On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 10:10 AM Mattia Verga via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Il 25/04/24 07:42, Jan Kolarik ha

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-25 Thread Michael J Gruber
Jan Kolarik venit, vidit, dixit 2024-04-25 07:42:10: > Hello everyone, > > We've prepared a side-tag for testing Rawhide with dnf5 as the default > package manager. Instructions for installing the packages from the side-tag > can be found at the following link [1]. > > Please provide feedback in

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-25 Thread Mattia Verga via devel
Il 25/04/24 07:42, Jan Kolarik ha scritto: > Hello everyone, > > We've prepared a side-tag for testing Rawhide with dnf5 as the default > package manager. Instructions for installing the packages from the > side-tag can be found at the following link [1]. > > Please provide feedback in Bodhi or

Re: Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 07:42 +0200, Jan Kolarik wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We've prepared a side-tag for testing Rawhide with dnf5 as the default > package manager. Instructions for installing the packages from the side-tag > can be found at the following link [1]. > > Please provide feedback

Feedback wanted: Testing side-tag for switching dnf5 in Rawhide

2024-04-24 Thread Jan Kolarik
Hello everyone, We've prepared a side-tag for testing Rawhide with dnf5 as the default package manager. Instructions for installing the packages from the side-tag can be found at the following link [1]. Please provide feedback in Bodhi or on this mailing list regarding the use cases you're