On 12/12/18 10:48 AM, home user via users wrote: > (Ed asked) >> Has this system been installed at around F18 >> and then upgraded as time goes on? > It occurs to me that I did not fully answer this. Since dnf was > released into Fedora, I upgraded Fedora roughly every half year using > "dnf upgrade [etc]". Before that, I upgraded roughly every half year > using the "yum" equivalent.
One should really update (or "dnf upgrade") more often than every six months. You run the risk of running security-compromised or buggy software if you don't. I never do an automated update, I do an interactive update so I can see just what the system wants to do first ("sudo dnf upgrade" and do NOT specify the "-y" option). As to whether you should upgrade from F28 to F29 or whatever when the new Fedora comes out via "dnf system-upgrade", I generally wait a month or two before I do it to see if there are any really nasty teething problems others experience. If I'm confident, I do a full-tilt backup of my system and do the upgrade. All my machines are F29 now. I hate dnf using "upgrade" for both updates and upgrading. To me, they're two different things. "Update" (to me) means updating installed software to the latest releases. "Upgrade" (to me) means upgrading the entire OS from, say F28 to F29. Yes, they use "dnf upgrade" for updates and "dnf system-upgrade" for OS upgrades, but using the term "upgrade" for both is (IMHO) confusing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Warning: You are logged into reality as the root user... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org