KDE, spins, and minimal install are nonproduct?

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 6 22:14:43 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 15:57 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> > Nonproduct is a product. You have to pass --product=(something) for
> > all upgrades from F20 - but one of the (something) values you can 
> > pass
> > is 'nonproduct'. If you want to upgrade to nonproduct you have to 
> > pass
> > --product=nonproduct , 'nonproduct' doesn't mean 'you don't have to
> > pass --product at all'.
> 
> OK I still find it confusing. I hope by shear coincidence this is 
> less
> confusing for non-native English speakers.
> 
> The man page, and the FAQ should probably state that the --product
> flag must be used when upgrading Fedora 20 or older; and must not be
> used when upgrading Fedora 21 and newer.

fedup's error message does seem pretty clear about this. The wiki also
did explain it, but I just rewrote the explanation to be shorter and,
hopefully, clearer:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#Upgrading_from_Fedora_20_or_earlie
r:_Products
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