[Was: Countdown is on... 13 days until F12 stable] - changing repos?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 03:52:37 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:38:08PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 14:29:25 +1100,
>   Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
> > Bruno,
> > 
> > thanks for the response.  I have:
> > 
> > adobe-linux-i386.repo
> > fedora-rawhide.repo
> > fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > fedora-updates.repo
> > fedora.repo
> > rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
> > 
> > and only "fedora-rawhide.repo" mentions "rawhide" in the mirrorlist
> > variable - all the others look normal to me.  Should I delete
> > "fedora-rawhide.repo" ?
> 
> You want to check that fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo are enabled and
> fedora-rawhide is disabled. Usually at this point references to the mirror
> manager for the upcoming release are redirected to the current rawhide
> repo. Once the release is made, the mirror manager stops doing that.

And furthermore, the fedora-release RPM is updated.  Which means that
unless you've made changes to the repo configuration files manually,
you should be seamlessly transferred to the Fedora 12 branch.  IIRC
you have to take manual action to stay on the Rawhide branch after
that point.

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