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

[poma]

On 10.07.2014 18:31, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 07/10/2014 11:45 AM, poma wrote:
>> On 10.07.2014 13:11, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>
>
> You'll want to install fedora-release-standard manually right now to
> make sure you have the right version going forward.

Done deal, thanks.

> We're working to figure out how to get that to install by default on
> upgrades.

Good luck with that!

> (Alternately, feel free to use -server or -workstation as well, if you
> want to move towards that environment going forward).

Those two goes camping in virtwood. :)



poma