Testing F9 - what happens when it goes final?

[Steve Dowe]

> > packages get branched on 8 April.  When this happens, does that mean
> > it's possible and/or standard practice to change repository
> > location(s)
> > in yum and continue to update packages, or do the snapshots, preview
> > and
> > final releases each require a total reinstall?  Sorry for being so
> > naive..!

(snip)

> When the final release comes around we update the fedora-release
> package to change your default repos to point at the newly-created
> stable repositories for F9.
> 
> So, if you install the Beta and keep applying updates, it will
> magically evolve into F9 final without any intervention needed[1].


What a relief!  I did hope this was the case. Thanks for your extremely
quick and informative answers.

Steve