From: "Samuel Sieb" <samuel(a)sieb.net>
On 04/14/2016 12:48 PM, Frank Elsner wrote:
> I've to update 3 laptops from Ferdora 22 to fedora 23.
> "dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23" wants to download 1.6 GB.
> I don't want to do this 3 times and came to the following idea:
>
> Host 1 Host 2
> dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23
> /var/cache/dnf/i386/23 ---------------------> /var/cache/dnf/i386/23
> /var/cache/yum/i386/23 ---------------------> /var/cache/yum/i386/23
> dnf system-upgrade reboot dnf system-upgrade reboot
>
> Will this work?
>
Those directories don't even exist.
The one you want is:
/var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade
IIRC in this folder are the packages already resolved. I would do system upgrade
properly. If you still think loosing your data worth saving 3.2Gb of transfer then
try rather this:
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23 --refresh --setopt=keepcache=1
# copy /var/cache/dnf/fedora* to other machines
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23 # on other machines
dnf system-upgrade reboot # everywhere
Honza