Rawhide vs F9

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 06:31 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > 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? 
> 
> There's a fedora-release update being pushed now which enables the Fedora 9 
> repositories (which will be temporarily redirected to Rawhide at the mirrorlist 
> level until the Fedora 9 release) instead of the rolling development (Rawhide) 
> ones. I'd recommend checking that you really have the correct repositories 
> enabled after getting that update (at the latest, before updating the first 
> time after the F9 release).

A couple of days ago I posted my unhappy experience of trying to install
F9-Beta (summary: a bust). I decided to wait for the Preview release,
which was supposed to happen on Thursday (10th), but seems to have been
pushed back as it hasn't happened yet AFAIK.

poc