On 27/6/21 22:30, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 27/06/2021 20:24, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 27/6/21 21:28, 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.
>>
>> So, it would be a much simpler process to upgrade from the released
>> repo and then do normal updates later.
> I have always used dnf upgrade for normal updates. From what I've
> found dnf update and dnf upgrade do the same thing and apply
> updates/installs from all active repositories, or is there a
> difference between the two?
No, they do the same thing. I misunderstood your original post.
Mostly because that upgrade/update are used
interchangeably.
I thought you were speaking of "dnf system-upgrade"
No problems, it's
all good.
regards,
Steve
>
> I only looked at discover because I was looking at trying to use a
> package that wasn't installed, and I was told to use Discover to
> install it (I don't remember which package is was and I couldn't find
> how to install it from Discover, so I finished up using flatpak).
>
OK. Well in that case nothing can be speculated.