Upgrade and Downgrade Guide ​

This document describes how to upgrade openEuler 22.03 LTS to openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1. The operations for other versions are similar.

1. OS Installation ​

Obtain an openEuler 22.03 LTS image and install the OS by referring to the installation guide.

View the versions of openEuler and the kernel in the current environment.

bash
[root@openEuler yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/openEuler-latest
openeulerversion=openEuler-22.03-LTS
compiletime=2022-03-30-16-23-56
gccversion=10.3.1-10.oe2203
kernelversion=5.10.0-60.18.0.50.oe2203
openjdkversion=1.8.0.312.b07-11.oe2203

2. Upgrade Execution ​

2.1 Adding the openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1 Repositories (openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1.repo) ​

bash
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1.repo

Add information about the following openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1 repositories and save and exit.

text
SP1_OS, SP1_everything, SP1_EPOL, SP1_debuginfo, SP1_source, SP1_update
bash
[SP1_OS]
name=SP1_OS
baseurl=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/OS/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/OS/$basearch/RPM-GPG-KEY-openEuler

[SP1_everything]
name=SP1_everything
baseurl=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/everything/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/everything/$basearch/RPM-GPG-KEY-openEuler

[SP1_EPOL]
name=SP1_EPOL
baseurl=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/EPOL/main/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/OS/$basearch/RPM-GPG-KEY-openEuler

[SP1_debuginfo]
name=SP1_debuginfo
baseurl=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/debuginfo/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/debuginfo/$basearch/RPM-GPG-KEY-openEuler

[SP1_source]
name=SP1_source
baseurl=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/source/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/source/RPM-GPG-KEY-openEuler

[SP1_update]
name=SP1_update
baseurl=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/update/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.openeuler.org/openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1/OS/$basearch/RPM-GPG-KEY-openEuler

2.2 Performing the Upgrade ​

bash
dnf update | tee update_log

Note:

  1. If an error is reported during the upgrade, run dnf update --skip-broken -x conflict_pkg1 |tee update_log to avoid the problem. If multiple packages conflict, use the -x conflict_pkg1 -x conflict_pkg2 -x conflict_pkg3 options to skip the packages and analyze, validate, and update the conflicted packages after the upgrade.
  2. Options:
    --allowerasing: Allow erasing of installed packages to resolve dependencies.
    --skip-broken: Resolve dependency problems by skipping packages.
    -x: Used with --skip-broken to specify the packages to be skipped.

2.3 Rebooting the OS ​

bash
reboot

3. Upgrade Verification ​

View the versions of openEuler and the kernel in the current environment.

bash
[root@openEuler ~]# cat /etc/openEuler-latest
openeulerversion=openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP1
compiletime=2022-12-27-22-19-04
gccversion=10.3.1-20
kernelversion=5.10.0-136.12.0.86.oe2203sp1
openjdkversion=1.8.0.352.b08-3.oe2203sp1
[root@openEuler ~]#
[root@openEuler ~]# uname -r
5.10.0-136.12.0.86.oe2203sp1.aarch64

4. Downgrade Execution ​

4.1 Performing the Downgrade ​

bash
dnf downgrade | tee downgrade_log

4.2 Rebooting the OS ​

bash
reboot

5. Downgrade Verification ​

View the versions of openEuler and the kernel in the current environment.

bash
[root@openEuler yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/openEuler-latest
openeulerversion=openEuler-22.03-LTS
compiletime=2022-03-30-16-23-56
gccversion=10.3.1-10.oe2203
kernelversion=5.10.0-60.18.0.50.oe2203
openjdkversion=1.8.0.312.b07-11.oe2203