Rawhide vs F9

Jonathan Roberts jonrob at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 9 21:13:13 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:37 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> If I install Rawhide (or an F9 beta) now, how reliably will I be able to
> upgrade to F9 when it appears in 3 weeks or so? I don't want Rawhide to
> be permanently enabled after upgrading, but I'm afraid that keeping up
> to date before the official release will push some packages past the
> versions finally available on F9.
> 
> I guess what I'm asking is "is this likely to be any easier than a full
> F8->F9 upgrade"?

When the final release comes out a new version of the fedora-release
package will come out which will automatically point your repositories
away from rawhide. You have to opt-in to staying on rawhide, rather than
opt-out.

Basically, you'll have a flawless upgrade :)

Jon
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> poc
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