Bug 35168 - Cannot upgrade to Cauldron with dnf system-upgrade due to "protected packages: dnf"
Summary: Cannot upgrade to Cauldron with dnf system-upgrade due to "protected packages...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
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Reported: 2026-03-02 17:28 CET by Ulrich Beckmann
Modified: 2026-03-19 18:09 CET (History)
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2026-03-02 17:31 CET, Ulrich Beckmann 		Details
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Description Ulrich Beckmann 2026-03-02 17:28:49 CET 
The attempt to upgrade to Cauldron with # dnf system-upgrade 
fails. 
The error messages is:
Error:
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf

Ulrich
Comment 1 Ulrich Beckmann 2026-03-02 17:31:42 CET 
Created attachment 15461 [details]
CLI log of test
Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2026-03-02 21:06:00 CET 
Thank you for the report.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Summary: Cannot upgrade to Cauldron with dnf system-upgrade => Cannot upgrade to Cauldron with dnf system-upgrade due to "protected packages: dnf"

Comment 3 Ulrich Beckmann 2026-03-19 18:09:35 CET 
I tested an online upgrade using dnf now.

# dnf upgrade --downloadonly --releasever=cauldron --allowerasing

I did expect the same error, as the same solver is supposed to be active. But this did not occur. I'd like to have an explanation.

The final upgrade was successfully carried out in a virtual terminal (Ctrl + Alt + F3). So it is possible to upgrade to Cauldron (and later MGA 10) using dnf.

Grub-efi and dnf are working. As always one has to reconfigure the repos from mageia to Cauldron.

The installation is KDE Plasma only and went into https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34966 kwin_x11 not installed anymore after an upgrade.

Ulrich
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