Is upgrading to fedora 23 safe?

Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com
Sat Nov 7 18:08:23 UTC 2015


On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 17:07:28 +0100 Heinz Diehl <htd+ml at fritha.org> wrote:

> On 05.11.2015, Gary Artim wrote: 
> 
> > 3 servers and 1 desktop work flawless doing this,
> > 8 servers to go:
> > 
> >    dnf clean all
> >    dnf update -y
> >    systemctl reboot
> >    dnf system-upgrade download --release=23
> >    dnf system-upgrade reboot
> 
> Just updated 2 laptops and 1 server from F22 to 23, without a single
> problem. Fedora-people: great work, well done!
> 
> As usual, I'll wait for another 2-3 weeks before updating my own
> Fedora machine..
> 

So, I have been only doing the following:

sudo dnf distro-sync --releasever=23

on my fully updated F22 systems. This appears to avert the possibility of a system that is unusable while being upgraded. What are the pitfalls with my approach?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

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