Rebase from Aurora to Kinoite

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Hi there,

having used Aurora for more than a year now, I have some things that are not working properly. E.g. my laptop always wakes up when I connect the power plug and I cannot seem to get to work my wifi printer.

Therefore I wanted to see if these thing work in Kinoite. I found a tutorial on how to rebase from Kinoite to Aurora. But how do I do this the other way round (from Aurora to Kinoite)?

That way I could try and see if the above problems also exist in Kinoite.

Regards
Stephan

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You should be able to just run

sudo bootc switch quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops/kinoite:43

If you want to check what would change before switching you should be able to run:

sudo bootc switch --retain quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops/kinoite:43

Then run rpm-ostree db diff to see what would change if you rebooted. If you don’t like what you see, you can run sudo bootc rollback before rebooting.

If you have layered packages installed via rpm-ostree install, they may or may not carry over. You could do a sudo rpm-ostree reset to uninstall anything you installed using rpm-ostree install before doing the bootc switch if you are worried about that.

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Thanks a lot! This worked.

Unfortunately, my problems are not solved in Kinoite. Therefore I switched back to Aurora (via Grub).

By the way: how can I switch back to a previously pinned version (via sudo ostree admin pin 0)?

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You should be able to just do sudo bootc rollback which will set the prior version as the default boot target. You have to reboot to actually make it happen.

You could run bootc status or rpm-ostree status to show versions available to you and confirm that a bootc rollback gets you to the image you want.

You will probably want to eventually unpin the image you pinned as it won’t automatically be garbage collected (so it stays available after multiple updates).

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