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Upgrade Fedora Silverblue 31 when you have rpmfusion packages

Upgrade Fedora Silverblue 31 when you have rpmfusion packages

Like last time, here is how I performed my system upgrade. having rpmfusion packages can block your upgrade with the following error message:

# ostree remote gpg-import fedora -k /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-31-primary
# rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/31/x86_64/silverblue
...
error: N’a pas pu depsolve la transaction; 2 problèmes détectés:
 Probléme 1: package rpmfusion-free-release-30-0.3.noarch requires system-release(30), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package generic-release-30-0.3.noarch requires generic-release-common = 30-0.3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides fedora-repos(30) needed by generic-release-common-30-0.3.noarch
 Probléme 2: package rpmfusion-nonfree-release-30-0.3.noarch requires system-release(30), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package generic-release-30-0.3.noarch requires generic-release-common = 30-0.3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides fedora-repos(30) needed by generic-release-common-30-0.3.noarch

Before you continue, you’ll have to upgrade the rpmfusion repos… To prevent unneeded reboot, you can do it manually:

# sed -i.backup 's/\$releasever/31/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion*.repo

Then, upgrade:

# wget https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-31.noarch.rpm
# wget https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-31.noarch.rpm
# rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/31/x86_64/silverblue --uninstall atomic --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release-30-0.3.noarch --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release-30-0.3.noarch --install rpmfusion-free-release-31.noarch.rpm --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release-31.noarch.rpm

I had to specify to remove atomic, which is a tool for deprecated Fedora Atomic which I had installed and is no longer there.

After that, it should have worked, just reboot to Fedora 31.

Last thing, revert back the rpmfusion repo files modified above:

# for f in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-*.repo.backup; do echo mv $f ${f%.backup}; done