(Rawhide users) Fedora 22 branching: What You Need To Know

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 15:45:47 UTC 2014


On 10.07.2014 13:11, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

> One thing I discovered last night. There's a bug with the new
> fedora-release packages and yum/dnf are kind of arbitrarily picking
> from fedora-release-[standard|cloud|server|workstation] to install if
> you just update. (This is in large part because these are just
> placeholder packages and don't have any content in them yet).
>
> To avoid issues going forward, before you do the distro-sync above,
> you probably want to 'yum install fedora-release-$something' where
> $something is either 'standard' (for non-productized Fedora) or one of
> the Products, which your environment will evolve more into the closer
> we get to Alpha.
>
> I'll try to work out what we need to do to make that transition
> cleaner from F20->F21, but for Rawhide->F21 it's going to be a bit
> manual for a while.

# grep fedora-release /var/log/yum.log
... Updated: fedora-release-21-0.9.noarch
... Erased: fedora-release-rawhide-21-0.7.noarch

Is this enough to stay on F21 or I still need e.g. 'fedora-release-standard' for non-product-specific, that is as we use now on Fedora 20?


poma




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