Fedora 30 ? about fedora-remix-for-wsl HOT 7 CLOSED

This is not a running linux system with processes and kernel, so there is no need for system-upgrade. You can simply run:

sudo dnf upgrade --releasever=30

Restart the console and you are good to go.
(Sometimes I've had "dnf upgrade" processes stuck for some reason. It is solved by removing the rpm lock file in /var/lib/rpm/. This is not something that happens on Linux, so it must be a WSL feature).

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We will be releasing a new build in the Store from Fedora 30 in the next couple weeks. So far no reports of issues.

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installed from https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL/releases/download/1.30.1/DistroLauncher-Appx_1.30.1.0_x64.appx ( thanks, this works well!) .. it's clearly fedora 30 (at least after usual updates) but /etc/os-release still says 29.

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I was able to perform a manual upgrade using the dnf system-upgrade plugin. It wasn't completely straight forward since you can't actually perform a reboot. I had to edit/replace the /etc/os-release file when done, and clear the ("hidden") lock files out of /var/lib/rpm.

Things seem to still work, however I really only use WSL for a bunch of cli tools so I'm not sure what, if anything, is broken. I did (appear to) break the system a few times trying to upgrade, so if this is attempted I would back up the installation first (I used lxrunoffline to export to a tgz and used that to create separate installs to test with).

An official way to upgrade would be nice.

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Good to know, thanks!

And yeah, I've had the rpm lock problem a couple times.

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I was able to perform a manual upgrade using the dnf system-upgrade plugin. It wasn't completely straight forward since you can't actually perform a reboot. I had to edit/replace the /etc/os-release file when done, and clear the ("hidden") lock files out of /var/lib/rpm.
Things seem to still work, however I really only use WSL for a bunch of cli tools so I'm not sure what, if anything, is broken. I did (appear to) break the system a few times trying to upgrade, so if this is attempted I would back up the installation first (I used lxrunoffline to export to a tgz and used that to create separate installs to test with).
An official way to upgrade would be nice.

@tkatz77 I don't think to take a risk to perform manually upgrade like that. The configurations that I've been set for the environment may have to re-set if it something problem happened. So, agree with you, official way is the best choice 😅

This is not a running linux system with processes and kernel, so there is no need for system-upgrade. You can simply run:
sudo dnf upgrade --releasever=30
Restart the console and you are good to go.
(Sometimes I've had "dnf upgrade" processes stuck for some reason. It is solved by removing the rpm lock file in /var/lib/rpm/. This is not something that happens on Linux, so it must be a WSL feature).

@setupdev Thanks, i will try this method.

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I've done performing upgrade by using this command :
sudo dnf upgrade --releasever=30
and everything works well.

Thanks @setupdev :)

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