On 4/4/25 5:27 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM home user via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Good morning, I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation 40 to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I have read the instructions in docs.fedoraproject.org/.... I see that dnf is getting a major upgrade from dnf4 to dnf5. I have 3 questions. 1. Before the upgrade. Before doing the first step ("dnf system-upgrade download...") of upgrade proper, do I need to do anything beyond what is stated in the instructions? 2. During the upgrade. After doing the first step ("dnf system-upgrade download...") of upgrade proper, and before doing the next step ("dnf system-upgrade reboot") of the upgrade proper, do I need to do anything beyond what is stated in the instructions? 3. After the upgrade proper. After the upgrade proper is done, and before doing any weekly patches (in f40: "dnf upgrade"), is there anything I need to do so the weekly patches will work properly, such as - database (e.g. the rpm database) changes? - configuration file changes? and so on?Follow <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/>.
That's what I was referring to in my initial post.
If you want to be really prepared, clone your drive, and then perform the upgrade on the clone. Finally, change the hostname on the clone, and then test the clone. Jeff
Looks like a good approach, but I don't have the hardware for it. One workstation (tower), one hard drive. Thank-you anyway. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
