On 5/2/23 20:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 4:13 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote:
[...]
My personal system was installed with FC3 in 2005 and then continuously
upgraded up to currently FC36.
(it has even got metamorphosis from i686 to x86_64, something that was
considered
impossible
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 4:13 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> [...]
> My personal system was installed with FC3 in 2005 and then continuously
> upgraded up to currently FC36.
> (it has even got metamorphosis from i686 to x86_64, something that was
> considered
> impossible to do)
That's impressive.
Je
On 5/2/23 07:40, Tim via users wrote:
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 10:13 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
I will never understand why people are so inclined to restart from scratch
with a new install every time.
Bad experience doing it in the past, and the huge number of times I've
read about the problem
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 10:13 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> I will never understand why people are so inclined to restart from scratch
> with a new install every time.
Bad experience doing it in the past, and the huge number of times I've
read about the problems people have needed help to resolve o
On Tue, 2 May 2023 10:13:04 +0200
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> I will never understand why people are so inclined to restart from scratch
> with a new install every time.
I treat it as an opportunity to get rid of stuff I no longer use.
I also keep the previous release around on a different partition
On 5/1/23 01:18, Felix Miata wrote:
It's been over 42 months since I last booted a Fedora installer (to a 5.3
kernel).
Upgrading Fedora has worked in excess of 100 times here (15 multiboot PCs with
it). On faster machines, allocating as much as an hour for the process is a
gross
excess. On les
On 4/30/23 10:18, Felix Miata wrote:
Another option I often use for system-upgrade is attaching an extra filesystem
to
/var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade before beginning, a pretty good guarantee against
lack
of freespace. If you've already downloaded most and they're on /, find a place
to
move them
Tim via users composed on 2023-05-01 03:38 (UTC+0930):
> I gave up doing upgrades, many years ago, there was so many problems
> with it: It took absolutely ages (it assesses the current system,
> finds out everything that needs to be installed, downloads it, installs
> it piece by piece). Confli
On Mon, 2023-05-01 at 03:38 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> I gave up doing upgrades, many years ago, there was so many problems
> with it: It took absolutely ages (it assesses the current system,
> finds out everything that needs to be installed, downloads it,
> installs
> it piece by piece). Conf
On 04/30/2023 01:01 PM, murph nj wrote:
The last few upgrades I've done have taken about an hour, and run very
successfully.
That's all well and good, but I was replying to somebody who was
complaining about how long they took.
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The last few upgrades I've done have taken about an hour, and run very
successfully.
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 2:33 PM Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/30/2023 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > It does take forever though, and it does download all the rpms
> > it needs for the upgrade first, so it needs a l
On 04/30/2023 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
It does take forever though, and it does download all the rpms
it needs for the upgrade first, so it needs a lot of free space.
So you start it late in the day and let the actual upgrade run overnight.
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On Mon, 01 May 2023 03:38:22 +0930
Tim via users wrote:
> I gave up doing upgrades, many years ago, there was so many problems
> with it
I think it has gotten better. When I upgraded my main system, I kept
the old one as an emergency backup and tried to keep it identical
to the main system so I c
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 09:40 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Why does it need more than 4 gigabytes to upgrade from f37 to f38?
> That's just crazy. I'd look into that before I started trying to
> stretch partitions.
It'd need to download all the new packages it's going to install, while
you still h
Paul Smith composed on 2023-04-30 15:23 (UTC+0100):
> I am trying to use
> dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38
> to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error:
> --
> -
> Error Summary
> -
> Disk Requirements:
>At least
Andras Simon wrote:
> If you have enough space in another partition, you can use the
> --downloaddir option. I have vague memories of this having solved the
> same problem once.
Though anyone using --downloaddir should be aware that the
directory passed as an option is (or was, when it came up
las
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 5:40 PM Mike Wright wrote:
>
> >
> > I am trying to use
> >
> > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38
> >
> > to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error:
> >
> > --
> > -
> > Error Summary
> > -
> > Dis
On 4/30/23 07:23, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
I am trying to use
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38
to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error:
--
-
Error Summary
-
Disk Requirements:
At least 4020MB more space nee
2023-04-30 16:23 UTC+02:00, Paul Smith :
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to use
>
> dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38
>
> to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error:
>
> --
> -
> Error Summary
> -
> Disk Requirements:
>At l
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 15:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to use
>
> dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38
>
> to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error:
>
> --
> -
> Error Summary
> -
> Disk Require
Dear All,
I am trying to use
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=38
to upgrade from F37 to F38. However, I am getting this error:
--
-
Error Summary
-
Disk Requirements:
At least 4020MB more space needed on the / filesystem.
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