On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 16:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > followup to earlier post but different enough that i'll start a new > > thread: using f30 and f31 as examples, what are the valid > > version-to-version upgrades using "dnf system-upgrade" that will > > both: > > > > 1) do the appropriate upgrade, and > > 2) allow normal, subsequent "dnf update" operations? > > > > i'm perusing this page: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade > > > > so here's how i interpret that. > > > > first, it's trivially obvious that one can upgrade from an official > > (possibly updated) f30 to an official f31 (once it is released), so > > that one's easy. (that scenario involves strictly official releases, > > no pre-release or branching.) > > > > next (what i asked about earlier), if i install from scratch a > > current, branched f31 iso image -- say, from here: > > > > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/latest-Fedora-31/compose/Workstation/x86_64/iso/ > > > > that will definitely give me a branched version -- will it allow me to > > subsequently update to keep up with changes on the way to f31, and > > will that allow me to finally system-upgrade officially to f31? > > Yes. In fact, you don't really need to do a 'system-upgrade' at any > point - if you just install any Branched pre-release and keep > updating it regularly, at the time the official release comes out > (in fact, a few days before) it will be equivalent to that official > release and you can then just keep dnf update'ing after that just as > you would if you had started from the initial release.
i suspected as much, thanks for confirming. > The only problem you might run into here is the 'updates-testing > disablement trap'. When you install from a Branched pre-release, the > 'updates-testing' repository is enabled by default. A short time > before release, we send out an update that disables it. At that > point you can have dependency issues because you have packages > installed from updates-testing but it is now disabled. You have two > choices at that point - you can do a 'dnf distro-sync', which should > downgrade anything from updates-testing to the version in the stable > repos, or you can just turn 'updates-testing' back on again. ah, that part i did *not* know. > > finally, if i have a (fully-updated) f30 system right now, > > before f31 comes out, can i "dnf system-upgrade" to move up to the > > current "branch", and eventually upgrade to the official f31 when > > it comes out? > > Yes. it might be worth summarizing this on a single page somewhere. i'm sure all this info is on fedora pages somewhere, just not all together. rday _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
