The answer is that is they way it is suggested to be done and/or the way that it was tested. If you do not stand on one leg facing south under a full moon when doing it then that is not a "supported" path. Most software vendors do it this way, and if anything goes wrong will blame that on some trivial deviation from the "magical" process they tested and/or have used before. I do the unsupported dnf upgrade releasever=xx and I do that, and then reboot once. But I can solve 99% of dnf/rpm upgrade issues, and can fix a failed boot. I was also support of last resort for a company with >20k running physicals and VMs so have pretty much seen just about every sort of stupidity and/or issue at one time or another and fixed the issue most of the time. On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM Ranjan Maitra via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat Apr26'25 04:53:50PM, Marco Moock wrote: > > From: Marco Moock <mm@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:53:50 +0200 > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: why is a reboot needed before upgrading? > > > > Am 26.04.2025 um 09:51:03 Uhr schrieb Ranjan Maitra via users: > > > > > a reboot is needed before proceeding with the upgrade. Just curious > > > why? > > > > If you are running an outdated kernel, you should reboot the current one > > to be able to properly remove the old kernel during the upgrade. > > Thank you for your explanation. I am just trying to understand: why does it matter? I am currently running 6.13.9 but the latest installed is 6.14.3. Aren't either of these going to be ignored when the upgrade happens anyway? > > Many thanks, > Ranjan > > > > > -- > > Gruß > > Marco > > > > Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1745653863muell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- _______________________________________________ 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
