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| ====== Upgrading Fedora ====== | ====== Upgrading Fedora ====== | ||
| General issues in upgrading Fedora | General issues in upgrading Fedora | ||
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| + | dnf install dnf-utils, meld | ||
| * Before Upgrading | * Before Upgrading | ||
| - | * yum update | + | * dnf update |
| * %%package-cleanup --problems%% | * %%package-cleanup --problems%% | ||
| * %%package-cleanup --dupes%% | * %%package-cleanup --dupes%% | ||
| * %%package-cleanup --orphans%% | * %%package-cleanup --orphans%% | ||
| * rpmconf -a (using meld to conflate) | * rpmconf -a (using meld to conflate) | ||
| + | * A good summary of the (around F30) upgrade process: [[https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-29-to-fedora-30/]] | ||
| * After Upgrading | * After Upgrading | ||
| - | * yum distro-sync | + | * dnf distro-sync |
| - | * yum update | + | * dnf update |
| * %%package-cleanup --problems%% | * %%package-cleanup --problems%% | ||
| * %%package-cleanup --dupes%% | * %%package-cleanup --dupes%% | ||
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| Some useful scripts | Some useful scripts | ||
| - | * When you want to delete a package (usually, to reinstall because of yum screw-ups) without touching any dependencies: | + | * When you want to delete a package (usually, to reinstall because of dnf screw-ups) without touching any dependencies: |
| ''%%rpm -e --justdb --nodeps packagename%%'' | ''%%rpm -e --justdb --nodeps packagename%%'' | ||
| + | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading / Backing up Multi-Partition Hosts ===== | ||
| + | Use live USB stick to boot so system is quiescent, then use parted to visualise structure | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | select /dev/sdx | ||
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| + | </code> | ||
| + | then | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | dd if=/dev/sda9 of=/dev/sdx4 bs=128M | ||
| + | watch -n 10 killall -USR1 dd | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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| ===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Hosts ===== | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Hosts ===== | ||
| Uninstall virtualbox before upgrade. Upgrade, then reinstall virtualbox (or you could try using the yum repo for virtualbox provided by rpmfusion, but so far I've found it too painful - too many glitches with the rpms - and directly installing rpms from www.virtualbox.org much easier). | Uninstall virtualbox before upgrade. Upgrade, then reinstall virtualbox (or you could try using the yum repo for virtualbox provided by rpmfusion, but so far I've found it too painful - too many glitches with the rpms - and directly installing rpms from www.virtualbox.org much easier). | ||
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| ===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Guests ===== | ===== Special Issues, Upgrading VirtualBox Guests ===== | ||
| Guest additions may fail badly in the updated guests (may only be able | Guest additions may fail badly in the updated guests (may only be able | ||