On Apr 6, 2005 1:27 PM, Richard Ramson <rramson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When Fedora Core 4 finally gets released in June, will I have to do an > upgrade or because I keep downloading the fixes I won't need the final > version? Package version are not garunteed to be monotonically increasing during the testing phase. For example, a serious bug in test3 that can not be resolved may very well mean a package is reverted to a lower package inside the development tree and subsequently in the final release. You will have to review your list of installed packages against the package list in the final release and downgrade your packages for any reversion cases. Even then you have to be careful about configuration file issues that get changed near the end of the testing cycle. For example there is a very good chance you have editted your yum configuration files which means you want see the default fc4 yum configuration, you'll see some mixture of your changes and the defaults because of the way rpm handles configuration files. At the end of the day.. its probably not appropriate to just assume what you have is really whats in the final release. You either need to do a review of your system or do a fresh install of the final release. I personally always do a fresh install of my test box with a new release to make sure my system doesn't have some lingering configuration issue or out-of-sync packages. -jef