preupgrade question

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 30 07:34:44 UTC 2008


seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 02:58 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
>> I have a F8 + Updates box that I am using to test preupgrade. I enabled 
>> updates-testing and installed the preupgrade package and then disabled the 
>> updates-testing repo. When I started the preupgrade and checked the box to try 
>> alphas and betas, the only selection available was rawhide. I was expecting to 
>> see the F9-pre in the list. Is that incorrect?
> 
> Yes, that's incorrect. There's not much point in testing f9-pr
> considering it's outdated by rawhide  and we're inside 2 weeks from the
> final. So, if you're going to do any [pre]upgrade testing the most
> valuable is of rawhide.
> 
> That, and the mirror locations for f9pr were a bit dodgy.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
Thanks Seth and Rahul. Now that it has been pointed out to me it makes perfect 
sense. ;-)

It is downloading stuff now.

Richard




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