F29 branching: heads up on 29 status, Rawhide status, and switching from Rawhide to 29

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hey folks! So, the branch event for Fedora 29 recently happened. That
means we now have a Fedora 29 branch and Rawhide is now what will
eventually become F30.

If you were on Rawhide but you want to follow F29 development, and not
stay on Rawhide, the instructions for switching can be found here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Questions_and_Answers

"Q: How do I get out of Rawhide again? I want to switch to the Branched
release or a stable release.

A: Remove the fedora-repos-rawhide package and/or disable the 'rawhide'
repository (su -c 'dnf config-manager --set-disabled rawhide'), enable
the 'fedora' and optionally 'updates' and 'updates-testing'
repositories (su -c 'dnf config-manager --set-enabled
fedora(,updates,updates-testing)') and perhaps run su -c 'dnf --
releasever=(version) distro-sync'. The farther the branch to which you
want to switch is behind Rawhide, the more trouble you might have with
this.

A possible problem is that you might miss the branching point, and your
system has already a bunch of post-branch Rawhide packages installed.
In that case, the dnf distro-sync will help you to get everything back
on the right track."

Also, quick note on state for anyone using either branch: if you're on
Rawhide, you will likely have issues with package signing. These should
be resolved when we get a new Rawhide compose completed and synced out
to mirrors, unfortunately the 20180818.n.0 compose failed; releng is
looking into that.

F29 should be mostly working OK at this point. If you install it from
scratch, or reinstall the bootloader for some reason, you may run into 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1618928 , where grub prints
a bunch of stuff on boot (not sure if this actually indicates there was
some kind of error, or just someone left some kind of verbose debugging
switch turned on by mistake): if you just page through all the output
(by pressing space) then boot will proceed. That grub build has now
been tagged into Rawhide too, so this may also affect fresh Rawhide
installs when we get a new compose, if it doesn't get fixed first.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/BMFAWIFG3P4BXYJXFENG3AEKF6YZWXYH/




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux