Cleanly Manage Packages in Fedora on MacBookPro

Background

Recently I installed Fedora 35 on a MacBookPro 16,2 and want to specifically manage the update and installed packages with this customized kernel

Commands

Installed

• Installed packages

sudo dnf list installed | wc

• Check if iwl* installed

# All iwl* firmware is unnecessary on MacBookPro
sudo dnf list installed | grep iwl

Upgrade and Update

• List available upgrade

sudo dnf list upgrades

• Update a particular package

sudo dnf update `sudo dnf list upgrades | grep shadow-utils | awk '{print $1}'`

Remove

• Remove the unwanted package

sudo dnf remove `sudo dnf list installed | grep iwl | awk '{print $1}'`

Troubleshooting

• Check whether the firmware is loaded properly

[jeff@mbp ~]$ sudo dmesg | egrep -i 'error|critical|warn|failed'
[20892.988681] apple-ib-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.000C: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 1 (-110)
[20895.036798] apple-ib-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.000C: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 2 (-110)
[20897.085721] apple-ib-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.000C: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 2 (-110)
[20899.132977] apple-ib-touchbar 0003:05AC:8302.000C: tb: Failed to set touch bar mode to 2 (-110)