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Fedora release upgrades

Notes and decisions for distro version upgrades on this machine. The Hyprland stack comes from the solopasha COPR, which is the recurring complication — it must be rebuilt against the new Fedora release before the system upgrade can resolve.

Standard upgrade procedure

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade        # usually already present
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=NN
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

Status: Fedora 43 → 44 — DEFERRED (decided 2026-06-11)

Decision: stay on Fedora 43 and wait. Do not upgrade to 44 yet.

Why deferred

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44 fails to resolve because the solopasha COPR has not rebuilt aquamarine against Fedora 44:

Fedora 44 ships libdisplay-info-0.3.0, which provides only libdisplay-info.so.3.
The COPR's F44 build aquamarine-0.9.5-2.fc44 still links against the old libdisplay-info.so.2 (verified — its requires list still names .so.2). So it is uninstallable on F44.
hyprland requires aquamarine, so it fails too.
The old libdisplay-info-0.2.0 cannot be kept — same package name (file conflict), and mutter / mesa-vulkan-drivers / wlroots / sway all move to .so.3 versions on F44.

This is the sole blocker. Everything else in the transaction resolves cleanly. It is a stale COPR rebuild, not a local misconfiguration. There is no native Hyprland/aquamarine in Fedora 44's repos, so the COPR is the only source.

No strong reason to rush: F43 is fully supported and the current GNOME/Hyprland setup works. Staying put until the COPR catches up.

How to proceed next time (re-checking F44)

Refresh and re-attempt the resolve (no commitment — this only downloads):

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44

If it resolves (no libdisplay-info.so.2 / aquamarine error): the COPR has rebuilt. Proceed with sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot.
If it still errors on aquamarine / libdisplay-info.so.2: the COPR is still behind. Quick check of the dep:
```
dnf repoquery --releasever=44 --repo='copr:*solopasha*' --requires aquamarine | grep display
```
libdisplay-info.so.2 = still stale, keep waiting. libdisplay-info.so.3 = ready to upgrade.

Override path (only if F44 becomes urgent)

Proceed now by temporarily dropping the Hyprland stack and running on the GNOME fallback. Reinstall Hyprland from the COPR once it is rebuilt.

sudo dnf remove aquamarine hyprland hyprland-uwsm xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
# after reboot into F44, log into GNOME; reinstall when COPR is ready:
#   sudo dnf install hyprland hyprland-uwsm xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland

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