To distro-sync or not distro-sync?

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 30.10.2015 v 18:06 Will Woods napsal(a):
> On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 15:00 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> Dne 29.10.2015 v 13:24 Honza Šilhan napsal(a):
>>> You can exclude the conflicting packages to proceed the system
>>> -upgrade i.e.:
>>> "dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23 --distro-sync -x
>>> rubygem-celluloid --allowerasing"
>>
>> Does the "-x" work actually? Last time I tried, the package I
>> excluded
>> was not downloaded (as expected), but after restart, the "-x" was not
>> used and my system-upgrade failed (this was unexpected). These flags
>> should be propagated and honored after restart, during the upgrade
>> phase.
> Actually, you're correct, the -x/--exclude settings are not currently
> propagated to the upgrade. I filed an issue on github to track that:
>
>   https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugin-system-upgrade/
> issues/29

Wonderful, thx for that.


Vít

>
> I *can* add that to the State object that dnf system-upgrade uses to
> pass the --best/--allowerasing/etc. settings between the download and
> the upgrade, but I think the best long-term solution is for DNF to
> provide some .save()/.load() method(s) that will correctly save *all*
> the relevant configuration and transaction bits, rather than trying to
> figure all of this out on my own in an external plugin.
>
> -w