What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? I've upgraded a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.
Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?
If you can replicate your server a test run in virtual environment may be worth the effort.
Fred Roller On Jul 22, 2016 11:01 AM, "Mark Haney" mark.haney@vifprogram.com wrote:
What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? I've upgraded a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.
Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01:16AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? I've upgraded a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc. Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?
I just did it (using `dnf system-upgrade`) and it worked fine. There's less to go wrong with that approach vs. doing a "live" dnf update — but on the other hand, it feels a little bit scarier if you don't have console access. (Which, thankfully, is increasingly common for remote servers these days.)
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01:16 -0400, Mark Haney mark.haney@vifprogram.com wrote:
What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? I've upgraded a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.
Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?
I'd recommend using screen in your ssh session in case the ssh session gets nuked during the upgrade. It reduces the chance you'll need to do a big clean up.
Yeah, that was my plan all along, to use screen that is, I was just wanting to see if others have done similar upgrades recently and what their experiences have been. Thanks, all!
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01:16 -0400, Mark Haney mark.haney@vifprogram.com wrote:
What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? I've upgraded a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.
Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?
I'd recommend using screen in your ssh session in case the ssh session gets nuked during the upgrade. It reduces the chance you'll need to do a big clean up.
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