Hi,
Gnome-software came up with a new message today. What is it for? I wouldn’t want my system to be upgraded to F41 without a proper warning and a full backup. I had a lot problems with F40 and IMHO, F39 has been far superior in every aspect.
Gnome-software is known to have cryptic messages. For example it once displayed to me a Kodi update 20.x and after updating, I had now Kodi 21.0 which I wasn’t ready at all nor prepared to upgrade to.
Can you click on it to see what details it shows? From what I remember, a message to upgrade to the next Fedora release will be different (and clear about the upgrade) like the image shown here:
F41 has not been released, so you should not get notifications about upgrading to it yet.
That’s very odd and should not happen. Can you please let us know when something like this happens again so we can investigate and file a bug?
Can you click on it to see what details it shows?
Nope not before I made a full backup this friday. I had horrible experiences with gnome software.
From what I remember, a message to upgrade to the next Fedora release will be different (and clear about the upgrade)
You’re perfectly correct. I saw the message in questions for F39 and F40 upgrades ready.
F41 has not been released, so you should not get notifications about upgrading to it yet.
Clearly.
Unfortunately, we know it happened only after the facts. When I see a Kodi update (20.3), I expect a Kodi update 20.3, not 21.0. But maybe it’s the way flatpak (which gnome software takes care of) handles updates. I’m relatively new to flatpak.
If you activated the ‘Fedora Third Party Repository’ you will see two Flatpak repositories. One is from Fedora and the other is flatpak it selves.
This means you can have up to 3 different versions to install. You have to open the info tab of the versions and check which you like to install. Mostly fedora goes with stable, and flatpak uses a newer version and even offers the testing version.
This means you can have up to 3 different versions to install. You have to open the info tab of the versions and check which you like to install. Mostly fedora goes with stable, and flatpak uses a newer version and even offers the testing version.
Corrrect. I used to run Fedora Kodi, but with F40 and pythom 3.12, it broke all the unofficials Kodi plugins relying on python 3.10. A terrible move and as a consequence, the need to move to Kodi flatpak.
Here, I was obviously referring to Kodi flatpak since it’s the sole version running properly.
I would say luckily. I remember there where times you had to change distribution when you really relied on a specific version. Nowadays you can just use a Flatpak where brings all the dependencies with.
So when using RPM based installation you really have to look before you make an update if the dependencies are available. If you use just fedora repositories you might will not be able to have always the newest Application versions, but generally you can be sure that the dependencies are not breaking the system.
Hi,
It was for an upgrade that doesn’t seem to exist. It should have been handled by dnf upgrade anyways. This should npt happen.
Now, how to get rid of this message that is stuck there like an ominous Tiberian bat?
Perhaps simply running a dnf update from a terminal will reset the notice?
Nope, did that 4 times (daily) with reboot in between. Thanks anyways!
Also deleted its cache .cache/gnome-software/appstream/components.xmlb and it recreated an identical one on restart.
