To distro-sync or not distro-sync?

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Fri Oct 30 14:09:04 UTC 2015


> > From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch at redhat.com>
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> It should definitely honor excluded packages after restart. System-upgrade
> should apply packages that were resolved and downloaded by DNF. I don't know
> how exactly are packages installed / removed after restart (Will know).
> If you encounter this problem, please, report a bug for
> dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
> component.

To everyone who's experimenting with system-upgrade - please use the latest packages available in Bodhi:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=dnf-plugin-system-upgrade

They contain number of fixes.


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