FC6-test 2

[alan]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, alan wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, oldman wrote:
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>>> Guillermo Garron wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> If i download FC6 test 2 and install it when the official version is
>>>> released do I have to download it again? or just with a yum update I
>>>> will have it on my PC?
>>>> thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Guillermo.
>>>>
>>> 	Should work, but is NOT guaranteed
>> 
>> You would have to switch yum to point to the FC6 tree and not devel.  Not 
>> certain if yum has the FC6 locations in the yum.conf.d files to do that or 
>> if you have to create your own.
>
> It is possible that some packages in the final release will be downgrades 
> from what is in devel.  It is possible that some package names will change. 
> It is possible that some dependencies will not be satisfied or that some 
> things will break.  That particular upgrade technique is not tested during 
> QA.  IIRC, some people who upgraded from FC5Tx to FC5 that way had some 
> problems.
>
> It is also possible that you'll never run into anything broken on your system 
> with your work profile.  For myself, I don't like to take the chance.

I always wipe and rebuild just to eliminate all the accumulated cruft that 
gets left behind from using development versions that get updated every 
2-3 days.

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