On 28/6/21 09:43, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 28/06/2021 07:06, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 28/6/21 05:01, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 2021-06-27 4:28 a.m., Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 27/06/2021 16:31, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have just done a sudo dnf upgrade on F34 which I think
>>>> upgraded 1311 packages. After the update finished I rebooted F34
>>>> and then ran discovery and it was still telling me there was 628
>>>> MB of F34 Platform updates to put on, which I did put on. Why is
>>>> dnf not installing all updates that are available? Is there a
>>>> configuration that needs to be done to alleviate this that is not
>>>> done in an "out of the box" install, or, is this telling me
that
>>>> we shouldn't be doing updates with dnf we should be using
>>>> Discovery instead?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've not looked at what goes on during the upgrade process. That is
>>> going from a previous release of Fedora to a later version of
>>> Fedora. I suspect that the upgrade process just compares what you
>>> have on your system with what packages are
>>> available in the fedora.repo (which doesn't change) and doesn't
>>> look at the fedora-updates.repo since looking in both
>>> places and keeping track of what package should be upgraded from
>>> which repo would be much more work. Especially in
>>> the case of where an update of some packages may change
>>> dependencies or pull in packages not used previously.
>>
>> system-update uses all the repos you have enabled, including the
>> updates repo. After system-update, you should be fully up-to-date.
> What is system-update, is that functionality provided by another dnf
> plugin?
>
That would be the command you'd use when upgrading to the next version
Fedora when it becomes
available.
That's okay, I've used that before, I just thought Samuel might
have
been referring to something different, its all good.
regards,
Steve
Yes, it is a dnf plugin. "sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade"
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/
may be helpful when time
to upgrade.