On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Steve Dowe wrote:
Hi,
Sorry if this is a totally lame question, but I'm currently "testing"
(ok, informally trying it out) and can't find an answer on this:
According to the release schedule
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule) the Fedora 9 beta
packages get branched on 8 April. When this happens, does that mean
it's possible and/or standard practice to change repository
location(s)
in yum and continue to update packages, or do the snapshots, preview
and
final releases each require a total reinstall? Sorry for being so
naive..!
No, it's a good question. In short: No reinstall is necessary.
The Beta release (like all the pre-releases) is basically just a
snapshot of Rawhide. So you'll continue getting updates from the
preconfigured rawhide repos right up through the final release.
When the final release comes around we update the fedora-release
package to change your default repos to point at the newly-created
stable repositories for F9.
So, if you install the Beta and keep applying updates, it will
magically evolve into F9 final without any intervention needed[1].
-w
[1] BIG FAT CAVEAT: As with all test releases, there's the possibility
of bad packages going out that will require minor fixing by hand (like
xulrunner around F9a). But the overall process is still basically
automatic.
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