how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

Carlos Morel-Riquelme leinfeva at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jul 26 10:03:22 UTC 2015


Hello Robert, well if you have enable=1 the update-testing repo try this:

dnf clean all && dnf install <yourpackage>

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>
>   even though i've enabled the updates-testing repo on my fedora 22
> system, i can't seem to update to the newer packages in that repo.
> i've got everything set up exactly as it's described here:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=304760
>
> but even though my updates-testing repo is enabled, i'm told there's
> "Nothing to do"; however, it *seems* that there is clearly a newer
> version of a package i'm interested in:
>
> $ dnf info cockpit
> langpacks: No languages are enabled
> Last metadata expiration check performed 2 days, 13:40:05 ago on Thu
> Jul 23 16:13:59 2015.
> Installed Packages
> Name        : cockpit
> Arch        : x86_64
> Epoch       : 0
> Version     : 0.60
> Release     : 1.fc22
> Size        : 35 k
> Repo        : @System
> From repo   : updates
> Summary     : A user interface for Linux servers
> URL         : http://cockpit-project.org/
> License     : LGPLv2+
> Description : Cockpit runs in a browser and can manage your network of
> GNU/Linux
>             : machines.
>
> Available Packages
> Name        : cockpit
> Arch        : x86_64
> Epoch       : 0
> Version     : 0.62
> Release     : 1.fc22
> Size        : 32 k
> Repo        : updates-testing
> Summary     : A user interface for Linux servers
> URL         : http://cockpit-project.org/
> License     : LGPLv2+
> Description : Cockpit runs in a browser and can manage your network of
> GNU/Linux
>             : machines.
>
>   as you can see, the installed version is 0.60, while the
> updates-testing version is 0.62. so ... what am i misunderstanding
> here?
>
> rday
>
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