My experience is, anytime 2-4 weeks after the release of a beta, there are updates available for it through RHN. These can come to almost 500 Mb worth of updates, which is nearly a full size 700 Mb CD. Then a while later a second beta (that means a whole new set of iso's to burn) might be released, and then another set of updates through RHN, again massive in size. Then an nth public beta (more iso's), with the update cycle repeating. That has been the pattern for the last two betas I've done. There is a published timetable for Severn, which I believe is something new. You can consult that to get a sense of when to expect updates and a new set of iso images. As to entitlements, I've always felt that beta testers ought to get a free double entitlement to RHN just for the beta, and for just the beta period. This includes testers who already have paid RHN subscriptions. I don't want to use my paid-for entitlements for the beta. I would rather reserve those for my "production" machines. I guess this is RHN's way of getting people to use their own cash to pay for part of the costs of the beta. Bob Cochran On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 17:54, Michael Young wrote: > Please pardon me if I missed a thread about this, but, is everyone > updating out of rawhide? Is redhat planning to populate the rhn severn > channel with packages anytime in the near future? I feel like I'm > wasting my entitlements while running the beta. > > TIA
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