Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 00:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > Jesse Keating wrote:
> > 
> >> If someone installs the RC version and they just want to get to the 
> >> Final version when it's released, they do nothing except 'yum update' 
> >> when the final version is released.
> > 
> > On a related note, I was running rawhide between test2 and F7 final. But 
> > yum didn't pick up any change to the fedora-release package, which left 
> > me picking up the first round of fc8 rebuilds after the dam broke, 
> > because I was still being pointed at the development repos.  I spent a 
> > few hours on different machines downloading the F7 final packages that 
> > had been updated and manually rolling them back with "rpm -U 
> > --oldpackage".  Ugh.
> 
> This is precisely what I wanted to avoid. Simply pushing out a updated 
> fedora-release to the development tree which will point users to the 
> general release repository before the next version updates are pushed 
> out would avoid this problem. This time a number of people have been 
> caught up by the devel - F8 changes.

How would pushing that out have helped?

You need to manually enable the development repos.  Pushing an updated
fedora-release for F7 would have marked fedora-development.repo
as .rpmnew but that wouldn't be picked up by yum.

Either way, manual intervention is required for people who are coming
from rawhide.

josh