Re: [Was: Countdown is on... 13 days until F12 stable] - changing repos?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen tmr com>]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:38:08PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 14:29:25 +1100,
> >   Philip Rhoades <phil pricom com au> wrote:
> > > Bruno,
> > >
> > > thanks for the response.  I have:
> > >
> > > adobe-linux-i386.repo
> > > fedora-rawhide.repo
> > > fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > > fedora-updates.repo
> > > fedora.repo
> > > rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
> > >
> > > and only "fedora-rawhide.repo" mentions "rawhide" in the mirrorlist
> > > variable - all the others look normal to me.  Should I delete
> > > "fedora-rawhide.repo" ?
> > You want to check that fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo are enabled and
> > fedora-rawhide is disabled. Usually at this point references to the mirror
> > manager for the upcoming release are redirected to the current rawhide
> > repo. Once the release is made, the mirror manager stops doing that.
>
> And furthermore, the fedora-release RPM is updated.  Which means that
> unless you've made changes to the repo configuration files manually,
> you should be seamlessly transferred to the Fedora 12 branch.  IIRC
> you have to take manual action to stay on the Rawhide branch after
> that point.
That's my recollection, the whole cutover process works perfectly without 
intervention, unless you want to continue to drag yourself down the bleeding edge.

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