Re: How to upgrade the Rawhide correctly?

[Adam Williamson]

On September 25, 2016 5:39:10 PM PDT, Bowen Wang <bowenwang.tinker(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:
> I just checked the man page of dnf, there is no
> dnf update
> available, do you mean
> dnf upgrade?
>
> Bowen
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:14:36 -0500
> > Bowen Wang <bowenwang.tinker(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > I found the web page about how to upgrade the Rawhide to the newest
> > > version: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
> > >
> > > there are totally 4 commands
> > > 1. dnf upgrade --refresh
> > > 2. dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
> > > 3. dnf system-upgrade download --refresh releasever=rawhide
> > > 4. dnf system-upgrade reboot
> > >
> > > I know that the second one is for installing a plugin for dnf.
> > > But what is the differences between 1 and 3,4?
> >
> > Note that the above is the process to upgrade a stable or branched
> > release to rawhide.
> >
> > Once you have a rawhide install, updating day to day is just
> > 'dnf update'.
> >
> > That said, step 1 updates your existing install to the latest
> packages
> > in enabled repos, 3 then downloads the packages you would need to
> > upgrade to rawhide, the last one reboots you into the dnf
> > system-upgrade and it applies those downloads to bring your stable or
> > branched release to rawhide.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > kevin
> >
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Update and upgrade are synonyms for dnf, they will just do the same thing. There is an
email sent to this list and the devel@ list everyday which lists the packages that changed
in rawhide that day; that's the 'changelog' for rawhide. The mail title will
have 'rawhide report' in it.
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