On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM Tim Evans <tkev...@tkevans.com> wrote:

> Command-line dnf upgrade (F39->F40) failed yesterday, barfing on a
> missing GPG key for Fedora 40,


The key is automatically imported when following dnf-system-upgrade, <
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/>.

What procedure did you follow?


> leaving 2.5GB of rpms sitting in
> /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade.  'dnt clean' does not remove these.
>
> Is it safe to manually clear out this subdirectory?
>

If you follow dnf-system-upgrade, then before the `dnf system-upgrade
reboot` step, it tells you how to abort and delete the download cache. But
I don't remember what it says to do. Sorry about that.

(FWIW, I tried the now-recommended GUI software app's "upgrade" and it
> ran  the upgrade without error, but all this cruft is still sitting there.)
>

I believe the recommended procedure is detailed at dnf-system-upgrade, <
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/>.

What procedure did you follow?

Jeff
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