updating to Fedora 2 official release via RAWHIDE

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Tue May 18 16:05:09 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 01:15, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using Fedora rawhide to stay updated.
> I presume that convergence to Fedora Core 2 is complete:
> ==============================================================
> [williams at matrix etc]$ more /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
> ==============================================================
> 
> =========== /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources ==========================
> yum fedora-core-rawhide \
> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/development/i386
> ==================================================================
> 
> 
> Will there be a repository for only Fedora 2 updates and security
> patches? Or is there only RAWHIDE?  

There will be FC2 updates.

> Please send the recommended entry for my above "sources" file.

See /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew and configure your closest mirror.

> 
> For new packages that exist in Fedora 2 that I don't already have on my
> system, is there a way to have up2date seek these out and ppprovide me
> with the option to install?  If not, can yum do this?

yum list available

> 
> PS: What does Tettnang mean?

See recent "Tettnang???" thread.

Phil






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