Cannot upgrade from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 due to conflicts between ifstat and iproute

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I am unable to upgrade from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 due to conflicts.

Successfully performed

sudo dnf -y upgrade --refresh

sudo reboot

But the following fails:

sudo dnf -y system-upgrade download --releasever=42 --allowerasing --best

Explanation given was

Testing offline transaction
Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.

  • file /usr/bin/ifstat conflicts between attempted installs of ifstat-1.1-46.fc42.x86_64 and iproute-6.12.0-3.fc42.x86_64

Received the same failure without or without --allowerase and/or --best

For completeness of problem report, running on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 with latest firmware. Been using machine successfully since Fedora 32.

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This is the result of the merge of /usr/sbin into /usr/bin in Fedora 42.

F41:

$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/ifstat
iproute-6.10.0-1.fc41.x86_64
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/ifstat
ifstat-1.1-45.fc41.x86_64

F42:

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/ifstat 
iproute-6.12.0-3.fc42.x86_64

you will need to remove ifstat first.

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Thank you so much!

To be more explicit, I entered

sudo dnf -y remove ifstat
sudo dnf -y system-upgrade download --releasever=42 --allowerasing
sudo dnf5 offline reboot

So far, so good. No other problems detected. I greatly appreciate the fast response and simple fix.

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