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 -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
