any life-threatening danger in upgrading my f11 box to rawhide?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Mon Nov 9 10:41:06 UTC 2009


On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, David wrote:

> On 11/9/2009 3:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 19:34:32 -0500,
> >>   "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> How are you checking? tigervnc-server-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 is
> >> installed on my machine.
> >
> >   i downloaded the f12 beta RC3 ISO image and, mounting it, i can
> > peek into the Packages/ directory, where i see only tigervnc.  is
> > that not an accurate way of knowing what packages come with f12?
> > if it's not on the DVD itself, from where did you get it?
>
> 'Everything', "what packages come with f12", will not be on the DVD.
> 'Everything' will not fit on one DVD. My guess would be 'everything'
> would be more like 2 DVDs and a CD or two.
>
> So yes it is quite possible that something, a package or two, or
> three, or more, could be installed on your current system and not
> included on the original DVD.
>
> What you are looking for for example, tigervnc-server, is in the
> 'everything' repo as tigervnc-server-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686.rpm and not
> on the DVD. --

  yes, i suspected as much shortly after that earlier post.  my bad.

rday
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