On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 04:21, Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I just wonder, is the system upgrade to the more recent Fedora > automatic? I suspect that the answer is *no*, otherwise I would not need > yesterday to update the system from F33 (I am rawhide user, so pardon my > ignorance). > > Therefore my question is, can it be automatic? Is it configurable? > > It is not automatic nor is it configurable. Upgrades mostly work most of the time.. (maybe 80% of the time without any post intervention). But there are a lot of corner cases which require manual fixing for some reason or another. > Just FTR, the computer in question was my sister's computer and her > expectation was that the system would be automatically upgraded > similarly to other updates, where she is asked to apply the updates > prior shutdown. It never occurred to her that she would need to click on > something and I think that is fair expectation. I don't think that > Fedora should allow to keep the system outdated and without updates. > > > I don't know of an Operating System which isn't a rolling operating system which works this way. MacOS, Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora all require a manual clickthru to get to the 'next' version which is available. This is because these updates are the most likely to fail and you need to usually put the system in a 'do not touch, alter, etc.' while this is going on. It is also most likely that the failure state is 'broken, reinstall.' or 'I need to change a lot of different things on here and you need to actually know what they do when I ask if you still want this'. I think for Fedora 34 and beyond, the user will now get a big banner on Workstation saying 'A new version of the operating system is ready for you' which will require them to click that they want to upgrade to it. That is about as easy as I can see it happening. > -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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