There do should have different between up2date and Rawhide?

[肇 鑫]

Hello, everyone.
I have an question. There do should have different between up2date and 
Rawhide?
My answer is no. However, the fact now seems different.
What makes me think of it is as below.
1)I use up2date to update my Severn everyday. I aslo subcribe the two 
Severn Channel, Beta and Beta Updates
2)However, since the Fedora announce date,Sep. 22ed, until now, Sep. 26th, 
I notice my up2date tells me there is nothing to update.
3)As I said above, I use up2date everyday, so I feel more and more strange 
about that. Then I go to 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS to see if my 
Severn is updated.
4)I use rpm -q to check. I checked to package: up2date and XFree86, which I 
think is the most frequently updated. The result are as below.
[hutigers at www hutigers]$ rpm -q up2date
up2date-3.9.28-2
[hutigers at www hutigers]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-4.3.0-32
However, what I find in 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS now is 
up2date-3.9.29-2.i386.rpm and XFree86-4.3.0-33.i386.rpm, which are newer.
5)Then I go to https://rhn.redhat.com/ and http://fedora.redhat.com/ to 
check if there is something changed.
6)In https://rhn.redhat.com/ I find "Mailman RPM does not properly handle 
package installation and upgrade." And I notice it has bugs on upgrade.
7)In http://fedora.redhat.com/ I find nothing newer than Sep 22ed. then I 
go to http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#errata, where I find the below 
message.
AA:**Check for Updates**

BB:**If you downloaded a beta, check Rawhide for updated packages or the 
RHN beta channel using the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date).**

CC:**If you downloaded a final release, check for Errata via Red Hat 
Network or from the Errata website.**
Notice the BB section. It says "check Rawhide for updated packages or the 
RHN beta channel using the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date)". That makes me 
believe that two methods you do will come to the same result.
However, it is not. In https://ren.redhat.com/ you can find up2date is just 
as follows
up2date-3.9.28-2   	 Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.26-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.25-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.24-1 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.23-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.20-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.19-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.15-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.13-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.9.12-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates
up2date-3.1.46-2 	Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta
And in 
rawhide,ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS, 
up2date is now up2date-3.9.29-2.i386.rpm.
So now rawhide is newer than update channels


8 and final) After the long discussion, my question is that. Is that a 
mistake make the two different? I mean that the two should be the same. Or 
in fact the rawhide should be newer than the update channel, as it is more 
unstable than update channel?
If the second answer is yes, please tell me a way to update with rawhide 
automaticly.
Thanks you all too read this long page and best regards.
:)
hutigers
Sep. 26th, 2003

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