DNF Offline Upgrading is now available

For background information, you can read: RFE - Expand Upgrade function…

TLDR:

Basically, it was pointed out many years ago that you can get yourself into trouble by using the “dnf upgrade” command while in a Desktop Environment. The solution was to extend the methodology used while doing a system upgrade to packages.

The syntax is similar:

dnf offline-upgrade download
dnf offline-upgrade reboot

Usage documentation is here.

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This is great news! This will be much more convenient than having to switch to a tty and running dnf upgrade in tmux like I have been doing for some time.

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@losuler, even that shouldn’t be directly equivalent, since you’re still in a logged-in user account. I think this uses a feature of SystemD to bypass that.