On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 11:47 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/05/2024 15:51, Felix Miata wrote: > > John Pilkington composed on 2024-05-01 09:31 (UTC+0100): > > > >> I'm not aware of any snapshots, and suspect that Felix has a quicker way > >> of finding the relevant 'freespace' than waiting for dnf's version to > >> appear. Perhaps it's shown during the 'rpm --force' installs? I have > >> around 3400 packages. > > > > Math is required. Unless your packages cache is elsewhere than on an > extX / > > filesystem, do: > > > > df / > > > > Did it yet increase by as much as the amount of additional freespace > required that > > dnf system-upgrade first reported? If no, upgrade and remove another > large rpm > > from the filesystem, and check again. Repeat until the number has become > large > > enough. This only works as intended with a real remove, not with some > file manager > > that moves to trash instead of actually removing. I use only mc or fcl > or various > > cmdline utils for file management, never Dolphin or Thunar or any other > GUI file > > manager. > > > > Also, if you added kernel* to dnf.conf skip list, you can remove it from > the > > cache. DNF pretends everything in the skip list does not exist. The 5 > raw 6.8.7 or > > 6.8.5 rpms are well upwards of 100MB. When time comes that upgrade has > otherwise > > completed, kernel* must be removed from the skip list to allow dnf to > upgrade to > > the current kernel. > > Thank you for this, and for earlier posts that I found elsewhere. The > system is now updated to f40 and seems to be running well. I didn't > have to use rpm installs from the cache in /var/lib/dnf/system-update. > > I think the effective change was to add > > "exclude kernel* linux-firmware* java* libreoffice* " > > to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf, before repeating everything from the preliminary > > "sudo dnf upgrade--refresh" and applying "--allowerasing --skip-broken" > in the download. > > I suppose a "sudo dnf clean all" had helped too: 88 files removed. > After the download KDiskFree reported 3.9 GB free in /, and dnf said > that was the total package size. "df / " said 4093160 blocks. After > the reboot I removed the excludes, ran dnf upgrade again, and installed > locally built MythTV rpms. > > That's an account of what I did. I'm afraid it comes with no guarantees. > For completeness, there are several post-upgrade tasks you could perform to ensure the system is tidy. See < https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-optional-post-upgrade-tasks >. Jeff
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