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Bug 1941758

Summary: RFE: Please add a way to upgrade CentOS Stream without requiring a reinstall
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Steven Rosenberg <stevenhrosenberg>
Component: distributionAssignee: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: CentOS StreamCC: bstinson, carl, james.antill, jwboyer, maxwell
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Description Steven Rosenberg 2021-03-22 17:50:10 UTC
Description of problem:

Please add a way to do an in-place upgrade between versions of CentOS Stream


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


Expected results:

A dnf or other console command (and also possibly a GNOME Software feature) that performs an in-place upgrade between versions of CentOS Stream without needing a full reinstall.

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2021-03-23 12:41:46 UTC
Steven, just to confirm do you mean an upgrade between major versions of CentOS Stream (e.g. CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9)?

Comment 3 Steven Rosenberg 2021-03-23 15:01:45 UTC
(In reply to Josh Boyer from comment #2)
> Steven, just to confirm do you mean an upgrade between major versions of
> CentOS Stream (e.g. CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9)?

Yes, that is it exactly.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2022-09-22 07:27:54 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.