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6 fedora-upgrade - tool to guide you with upgrade of Fedora to next major
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10 fedora-upgrade [--help] [--tmpfs=SIZE] [--upgrade-to=VERSION]
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13 Script fedora-upgrade tries to automate steps needed for dnf-upgrade
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16 Steps which fedora-upgrade does:
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22 • Resolve old .rpmsave and .rpmnew files before upgrading (if there
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25 • Download and import RPM GPG keys.
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27 • Run "dnf --releasever=$TOVER distro-sync".
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35 --tmpfs=SIZE - When performing online upgrade and you have small
36 /var/cache/dnf then this option will mount /var/cache/dnf as tmpfs with
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40 -u=VERSION, --upgrade-to=VERSION - By default fedora-upgrade upgrade to
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47 dnf(8), rpmconf(8), fedora-remove-old-gpg-keys(8)
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51 If you experience some problem, please report it at:
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55 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com>
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