which repos for fedora 18

[Bill Davidsen]

FMcCormick wrote:
>
> I noticed today that on Fedora 18 the Fedora-updates-testing repo is
> not enabled. Should it be ??
>
Probably not by default. THere are two reasons not to use this repo unless it 
has something you really need, or really intend to test:

1 - packages here are really for testing, they don't have the QA that things in 
the updates repo are expected to have. They may be new and wonderful, but have 
been known to have major problems, including those which could cause cause loss 
of data in some cases.

2 - these packages may _never_ make it into the supported updates repo. Which 
may give you a chance to learn about reverting upgrades, cause you to create 
data files in non-standard formats (done that), learn to love interface features 
which don't get adopted in the mainline (that, too), or just leave you out of 
sync with the rest of the Fedora world.

3 - when doing an update to the next release, these packages may not be 
upgraded, or may be upgraded to a version which is not a proper superset of the 
functionality of the testing version. Upgrade tools like 'preupdate' may not do 
the right thing from your point of view, and in some cases there may not be a 
right thing to do.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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