how do i enable the updates-testing repo?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Sérgio Basto wrote:

> On Dom, 2015-07-26 at 06:04 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Rares Aioanei wrote:
> >
> > > Did you run 'dnf update' after enabling the repo? What does 'dnf
> > > repolist' say?
> >
> >   i've run "sudo dnf update" a number of times, tells me "Nothing to
> > do". and:
> >
> > $ dnf repolist
> > langpacks: No languages are enabled
> > Last metadata expiration check performed 2 days, 13:48:11 ago on Thu Jul 23 16:13:59 2015.
> > repo id                                       repo name                                                    status
> > adobe-linux-x86_64                            Adobe Systems Incorporated                                        2
> > *fedora                                       Fedora 22 - x86_64                                           44,762
> > *updates                                      Fedora 22 - x86_64 - Updates                                  7,590
> > *updates-testing                              Fedora 22 - x86_64 - Test Updates                             2,265
> >
> > so it *seems* like updates-testing is enabled. i'm puzzled.
>
> Hi, hopefully dnf have good documentation :
>
> googling for : dnf enable
>
> http://dnf-plugins-core.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config_manager.html
>
> so you :
>   dnf config-manager --set-enable updates-testing
>
> and disable with :
>   dnf config-manager --set-disable updates-testing
>
>
> You also have the choice of enable or disable repos in dnf command line
> with:
>
>   dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing
>
>
> and you don't need clean metadata anymore, if you want be sure that is
> used latest metadata use --refresh:
>
>   dnf update --refresh

  i did all of the above and, as ed(?) suggested, i may just be
unluckily hitting an out-of-date mirror.

rday

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