RFC: changing versioning of fedora-release in rawhide

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 20 19:11:25 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > What I propose is that instead of changing the package version, we
> > just change the release. Something like 'fedora-release-8-5.rawhide',
> > or similar.
> 
> I somewhat question picking up packages from the previous release once
> you've gotten to the point of your fedora-release package bumped,
> especially from a bug reproducing pov, but....

yum upgrade

'oops, got the broken gdm'

rpm -e --nodeps gdm

yum --disablerepo=development --enablerepo=fedora install gdm

... fixed!

Bill




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