On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 18:06 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:27 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > <lecture mode> > > The development tree... just came out of release freeze. And very > > new.. very raw packages are now showing up in the development tree. > > Its not completely unexpected to see very new packages be included > > that have packaging problems, like missing dependancies or wrong > > dependancies. You can't really think of the development tree as being > > updates for fc3test releases any longer. What development is being > > used for starting yesterday, is staging for fc4. > > > > While I noticed Chris's displeasure at the lecture, *I* didn't know > that. Not having been exposed to Rawhide until about two weeks ago, I > would have expected the "unfreeze" to happen *on* the release date of > FC3, not a couple of days earlier. > > Of course, I can see the point since now that the code is being > distributed and the mirrors are being populated, there's no point in a > Rawhide freeze any more. Didn't see it coming and wouldn't have > predicted it, but can understand it. > > Spoon-feeding the Rawhide newbies with a quick one-line announcement of > such events is a totally unnecessary little detail, which would > nevertheless be gratefully appreciated if at some point it occurs to > someone to do something like that. Thanks for this post. I was also getting confused today. I would like to point one of my boxes to the Fedora Core3 Updates Repository. Can someone tell me what to put in my "/etc/yum.conf" and "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources" files? Of course, I will keep one of my boxes pointed at rawhide in anticipation of Fedora Core4 Test1, hmmm? Thanks, Ernesto > > Cheers, > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list