dnf workstation collection

[Wolfgang S Rupprecht]

Is there a way to make sure a system that was upgraded multiple times
instead of installed from scratch has all the rpm packages that the
current workstation collection has?   I notice some things like the
login screen wallpaper program that is present on fresh installs is
missing from an upgraded system.  Is there an @something dnf collection
that I can install to bring that aspect of an old system up to date?

-wolfgang

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 05:18 -0700, Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
> Is there a way to make sure a system that was upgraded multiple times
> instead of installed from scratch has all the rpm packages that the
> current workstation collection has?   I notice some things like the
> login screen wallpaper program that is present on fresh installs is
> missing from an upgraded system.  Is there an @something dnf collection
> that I can install to bring that aspect of an old system up to date?

$ dnf distro-sync

poc

[Ed Greshko]

On 6/1/19 8:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 05:18 -0700, Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
> > Is there a way to make sure a system that was upgraded multiple times
> > instead of installed from scratch has all the rpm packages that the
> > current workstation collection has?   I notice some things like the
> > login screen wallpaper program that is present on fresh installs is
> > missing from an upgraded system.  Is there an @something dnf collection
> > that I can install to bring that aspect of an old system up to date?
>
> $ dnf distro-sync

I don't think that is what the OP is asking....

dnf distro-sync [<package-spec>...]
              As necessary upgrades,  downgrades  or  keeps  selected  installed
              packages  to  match  the latest version available from any enabled
              repository. If no package is given,  all  installed  packages  are
              considered.

So, if a package hasn't been added during an upgrade which is installed on a fresh install
a "distro-sync" won't., I believe, add it.

[sixpack13]

=> dnf grouplist

was

sudo dnf groupinstall "Fedora Workstation"

meant ?

maybe followed by an

sudo dnf autoremove/distrosync

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

"  sixpack13"  writes:
> sudo dnf groupinstall "Fedora Workstation"

I was wondering about that.  I did it (without typing "y") on both and
upgraded and a system with a fresh install.  In the upgraded case I got
a large list as expected.  The unexpected part was that I had a shorter,
but still unexpectedly long list on the freshly installed system too.
It also came up with some errors that made me wonder if the option had
gotten tested.

#  dnf groupinstall "Fedora Workstation"  --skip-broken
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:31 ago on Sat 01 Jun 2019 01:34:06 PM PDT.
No match for group package "libva-vaapi-driver"
No match for group package "xorg-x11-drv-omap"
No match for group package "totem-nautilus"
No match for group package "xorg-x11-drv-armsoc"
No match for group package "powerpc-utils"
No match for group package "lsvpd"
Dependencies resolved.

Problem: problem with installed package fedora-chromium-config-1.1-2.fc30.noarch
  - installed package fedora-chromium-config-1.1-2.fc30.noarch obsoletes fedora-user-agent-chrome < 0.0.0.5 provided by fedora-user-agent-chrome-0.0.0.4-6.fc30.noarch
  - package fedora-chromium-config-1.1-2.fc30.noarch obsoletes fedora-user-agent-chrome < 0.0.0.5 provided by fedora-user-agent-chrome-0.0.0.4-6.fc30.noarch
  - conflicting requests
================================================================================
 Package                    Arch   Version                        Repo     Size
================================================================================
Installing group/module packages:
 podman                     x86_64 2:1.3.1-1.git7210727.fc30      updates  11 M
Installing dependencies:
 containers-common          x86_64 1:0.1.36-9.dev.gitd93a581.fc30 updates  35 k
 fuse3-libs                 x86_64 3.5.0-1.fc30                   updates  83 k
 runc                       x86_64 2:1.0.0-93.dev.gitb9b6cc6.fc30 updates 2.5 M
 containernetworking-plugins
                            x86_64 0.7.4-2.fc30                   fedora   14 M
 libnet                     x86_64 1.1.6-17.fc30                  fedora   61 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 container-selinux          noarch 2:2.101-1.gitb0061dc.fc30      updates  47 k
 criu                       x86_64 3.12-11.fc30                   updates 476 k
 fuse-overlayfs             x86_64 0.3-10.dev.gita7c8295.fc30     updates  50 k
 podman-manpages            noarch 2:1.3.1-1.git7210727.fc30      updates 172 k
 slirp4netns                x86_64 0.3.0-2.git4992082.fc30        updates  82 k
Installing Environment Groups:
 Fedora Workstation                                                            
Installing Groups:
 base-x                                                                        
 Container Management                                                          
 Core                                                                          
 Firefox Web Browser                                                           
 Fonts                                                                         
 GNOME Desktop Environment                                                     
 Guest Desktop Agents                                                          
 Hardware Support                                                              
 LibreOffice                                                                   
 Multimedia                                                                    
 Common NetworkManager Submodules

Printing Support                                                              
 Fedora Workstation product core

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  11 Packages

Total download size: 28 M
Installed size: 111 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Operation aborted.
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