On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM home user via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> I'm planning and preparing to upgrade my workstation from Fedora Workstation
> 40 to Fedora Workstation 41. The ipgrade is planned for next Thursday. I
> have read the instructions in docs.fedoraproject.org/.... I see that dnf is
> getting a major upgrade from dnf4 to dnf5. I have 3 questions.
>
> 1. Before the upgrade.
> Before doing the first step ("dnf system-upgrade download...") of upgrade
> proper, do I need to do anything beyond what is stated in the instructions?
>
> 2. During the upgrade.
> After doing the first step ("dnf system-upgrade download...") of upgrade
> proper,
> and before doing the next step ("dnf system-upgrade reboot") of the upgrade
> proper,
> do I need to do anything beyond what is stated in the instructions?
>
> 3. After the upgrade proper.
> After the upgrade proper is done,
> and before doing any weekly patches (in f40: "dnf upgrade"),
> is there anything I need to do so the weekly patches will work properly, such
> as
> - database (e.g. the rpm database) changes?
> - configuration file changes?
> and so on?
Follow
<https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/>.
If you want to be really prepared, clone your drive, and then perform
the upgrade on the clone. Finally, change the hostname on the clone,
and then test the clone.
Jeff
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