Fedora Core 1 Test Update: up2date-4.1.21-2, yum-2.0.5-1

[Jim Cornette]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:04:32 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello Michael,
>>
>>
>>>Admittedly, I still think it's a weird idea to post these announcements to
>>>fedora-test-list instead of fedora-list.
>>
>>They are test updates. Not interesting (?) for "normal" Fedora users.
>>Final updates are announced via fedora-announce. But a separate list for
>>test current and test beta might be a good idea.
> 
> 
> Users of Fedora Core 1 will be those who install the updates as soon as
> they are released without having been tested enough by people who focus on
> Fedora Core 2 Test1. Hence it would be good if the target group of the
> update candidates learns about those Test Updates on fedora-list.
> 


I think that discussing the problems encountered with Fedora Core 1 test 
packages do need to be relayed to the Fedora user list. I updates 
up2date at work today and encountered the problem that the bug submitted 
described. Others might benefit by being forewarned, except for the very 
heavy traffic.

But overall, I think that test updates for FC1 should be posted here. 
The main reason being the lighter traffic and it is a problem relating 
to testing a program.

I usally have not updated up2date until I finished retrieving all other 
programs. This was because of the fear that up2date might fail and I'd 
have to retrieve the programs manually. I downloaded the new test kernel 
and up2date. I then started up2date again to get the rest of the 
programs. Up2date failed. I retrieved the other rpms that were still 
listed by the applet. I then ftp'ed them to a local directory and ran 
"rpm Fvh *.rpm" Up2date still failed after upgrading the other announced 
programs.

I guess I should have kept with my previous practice of updating up2date 
last.

Jim