Rawhide vs F9
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 21:40:17 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 22:13 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:37 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > If I install Rawhide (or an F9 beta) now, how reliably will I be able to
> > upgrade to F9 when it appears in 3 weeks or so? I don't want Rawhide to
> > be permanently enabled after upgrading, but I'm afraid that keeping up
> > to date before the official release will push some packages past the
> > versions finally available on F9.
> >
> > I guess what I'm asking is "is this likely to be any easier than a full
> > F8->F9 upgrade"?
>
> When the final release comes out a new version of the fedora-release
> package will come out which will automatically point your repositories
> away from rawhide. You have to opt-in to staying on rawhide, rather than
> opt-out.
>
> Basically, you'll have a flawless upgrade :)
Thanks. You realize I'm going to hold you to that? :-)
poc
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