On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 00:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > Jesse Keating wrote: > > > >> If someone installs the RC version and they just want to get to the > >> Final version when it's released, they do nothing except 'yum update' > >> when the final version is released. > > > > On a related note, I was running rawhide between test2 and F7 final. But > > yum didn't pick up any change to the fedora-release package, which left > > me picking up the first round of fc8 rebuilds after the dam broke, > > because I was still being pointed at the development repos. I spent a > > few hours on different machines downloading the F7 final packages that > > had been updated and manually rolling them back with "rpm -U > > --oldpackage". Ugh. > > This is precisely what I wanted to avoid. Simply pushing out a updated > fedora-release to the development tree which will point users to the > general release repository before the next version updates are pushed > out would avoid this problem. This time a number of people have been > caught up by the devel - F8 changes. How would pushing that out have helped? You need to manually enable the development repos. Pushing an updated fedora-release for F7 would have marked fedora-development.repo as .rpmnew but that wouldn't be picked up by yum. Either way, manual intervention is required for people who are coming from rawhide. josh -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
