Rawhide to Fedora 9?

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Sun Apr 27 03:58:43 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:51:51PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> kwhiskerz wrote:
> >I installed Fedora 9beta to a virgin partition and have kept up with all 
> >of the updates. Somewhere along the way, I noticed that 
> >/etc/fedora-release now shows Fedora release 9 (Rawhide). I also use Livna 
> >and it is using the development repo.
> >
> >My question is:
> >
> >If I leave the Fedora repos now already using Fedora 9, Fedora-updates 9 
> >and switch to Livna 9 a few days before the release date of Fedora 9, will 
> >I have Fedora 9, without any cruft? My hope is that I will not need to 
> >reinstall.
> 
> I did this for FC5, and I'm doing it on another machine for F9.  When F9 
> becomes officially released, all you need to do is install the F9 
> fedora-release RPM from the F9 release.  You can even (upgrade) install 
> it via a URL using rpm.  That will fix your Fedora yum repositories for 
> you.  Then you will no longer be on rawhide.

If you've been running the Fedora 9 beta (or rawhide), as of this past
Wednesday you would have received via yum upgrade  the new
fedora-release package.  This configures yum to download the Fedora 9
content.  Because F9 isn't quite out yet, we have some mirror
redirection magic on the mirrorlist servers to keep those users
pointed at the rawhide content.  When F9 is released, we'll remove
those redirects, and you'll be left running F9.  If thereafter you
want to start running rawhide again, simply:

$ sudo yum --enablerepo=development upgrade fedora-release

again and you'll start being pointed at rawhide again, until F10 is
released.  In this way, only those who want to run rawhide constantly
need to run this every 6 months.  Everyone else gets moved to the
latest stable release once it's available, and they stay there until
they're ready to upgrade.

Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux




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