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Before I went to bed last night, I did an inplace upgrade of a remote server from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.9 to 10.3. Because that's the kind of "fun" I like. The short version: You may have noticed that my blog was down for a few minutes but that's all. The upgrade succeeded and thanks to the warnings I got from the `leapp` upgrade tool I fixed all the little things that were needed afterwards. Open heart surgery, virtual style, done. Patient happy.
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@scips Living on the edge 😉 I was lucky. It all went smooth, though I was nervously watching the upgrade messages stream by on the remote console. But it all went fine and I could connect with ssh after the upgrade and reboot was done. I knew I had a few cleanup taks ahead of me, which I finished this morning. Now I can make some coffee and enjoy the weekend. Or setup a backup mail server. I planned that for quite a while, so why not now 😉 @homelab
The only thing that didn't survive was `certbot`. But I was warned about that. So after the upgrade was done, I reinstalled the EPEL repo, did a `dnf install certbot python3-certbot-nginx` to get it back in the correct version and a `certbot renew --dry-run` confirmed that all my certs are still there and will get updated automagically after `systemctl enable certbot-renew.timer; systemctl start certbot-renew.timer` makes sure the service is enabled again.
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @homelab@fedigroups.social what’s that ‘renew.timer’ stuff all about?
@homelab ADDENDUM: With the system up and running, including all containers that it had, I will now continue the cleaning up by going through all the `.rpmnew` files and fix possible changes in config files.
Thank you to my peers at Red Hat Engineering for making all of this possible!
@jwildeboer are you using rpmconf for that? The official Fedora docs mention it, works well in my experience! https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-online/#_3_clean_stuff
@ybinnenweg Yep. Though I often still go manually through the .rpmnew files to see if I might be missing some important new options.
@jwildeboer @homelab I love the "Before I went to bed last night, I did an inplace upgrade of..." It's really the kind of black hole I fall into every Friday evening... With me saying... "I will quickly upgrade my servers..." and then... Quickly becomes... Days sometimes