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xsuchy / fedora-upgrade

Upgrade Fedora to next version using DNF upgrade without the need to reboot during the upgrade.
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Better way to remove retired packages #49

Closed Yetoo1 closed 1 year ago

Yetoo1 commented 1 year ago

Instead of just having the previous version passed into remove-retired-packages and compared the list of $UPGRADE_FROM with $UPGRADE_TO, why not just use dnf list --obsoletes and remove packages listed there. If the command does what I think it does which includes listing packages that are no longer in a repository I think this would allow removing retired packages not just from the previous version but from all versions if system was upgraded since many versions ago or remove-retired-packages wasn't run for some reason.

xsuchy commented 1 year ago

From DNF man page:

List packages installed on the system that are obsoleted by packages in any known repository.

I.e. it lists packages that are affected by Obsolete: * of some other package. But when a package is retired, no other package obsoleted it. And DNF will not list it.

Yetoo1 commented 1 year ago

@xsuchy Alternatively what if the list being compared is all installed packages (some variant of dnf repoquery -q --disableplugin=local --qf "%{name}" --installed) against $UPGRADE_TO/$NEW_LIST?