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SOP: openQA System Upgrades

This SOP details the necessary steps for performing a system upgrade on an openQA host.

Contact Information
Owner Testing Team
Email Contact testing@rockylinux.org
Mattermost Contacts @stack, @tcooper
Mattermost Channels ~Testing

Fedora

  1. Verify current installation is fully upgraded

    1
    dnf upgrade --refresh

  2. Install system upgrade plugin

    1
    dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade

  3. Download the upgrade packages for next version

    1
    dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=[newversion]

  4. Reboot into offline upgrade mode

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    dnf system-upgrade reboot

  5. Post-reboot cleanup

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2
    dnf system-upgrade clean
dnf clean packages

Post-Upgrade Tasks

These steps may also be necessary in some (but not all) cases.

Upgrade the PostgreSQL database

  1. Install postgresql-upgrade package

    1
    dnf install postgresql-upgrade

  2. Upgrade your postgres database

    1
2
    sudo -iu postgres
postgresql-setup --upgrade

Re-apply Rocky branding

  1. Obtain the Ansible openQA deployment repository

  2. Run the branding related tasks

    1
    ansible-playbook init-openqa-rocky-developer-host.yml -t branding

References

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