Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF
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Just had an issue with Fedora 27 after an update.
VMM wouldn't connect to localhost due to some weird error about some data being too large or something.
Restarted libvirtd service and seems okay now.
Too much open atm to reboot, so we'll see later if it happens after a reboot.
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While trying to upgrade a 512 MB Vultr VPS, the upgrade was failing on the
dnf -y install dnf-plugin-system-upgradepart. After some quick googling, it appeared that since I didn't have a swapfile and only 512mb of memory, the upgrade wasn't going to work.I ended up adding a 2GB swapfile and it went off without a hitch.
I added the swap file like this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=2,097,152 chown root:root /swapfile1 chmod 0600 /swapfile1 mkswap /swapfile1 swapon /swapfile1 -
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
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@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
I've been upgrading everything the last few versions. Since 24 or 25, never any issues there. Just verify first that all packages are compatible.
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@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
You can avoid compatibility with packages by using more flatpak apps instead.
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@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
It's not Windows, there is no real need for fresh installs. That was specifically a Windows issue, not a general operating system guideline.
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@black3dynamite said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
You can avoid compatibility with packages by using more flatpak apps instead.
Flatpak is not ready for prime time.
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@JaredBusch said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@black3dynamite said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
You can avoid compatibility with packages by using more flatpak apps instead.
Flatpak is not ready for prime time.
I like Snap much better. I've been happy with Snap.
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@JaredBusch said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@black3dynamite said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
You can avoid compatibility with packages by using more flatpak apps instead.
Flatpak is not ready for prime time.
Why not?
And that's funny that you said prime time.
There's a post from Flatpak with prime time in the title.
Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time
https://www.flatpak.org/press/2018-08-20-flatpak-1.0/ -
@black3dynamite said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@JaredBusch said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@black3dynamite said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
@NerdyDad said in Updating Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 with DNF:
How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?
You can avoid compatibility with packages by using more flatpak apps instead.
Flatpak is not ready for prime time.
Why not?
And that's funny that you said prime time.
There's a post from Flatpak with prime time in the title.
Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time
https://www.flatpak.org/press/2018-08-20-flatpak-1.0/And @scottalanmiller coukd say sodiumsuite is awesome and ready for the masses. Still doesn’t make it true.
