On 31-03-2024 00:41, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 11:12:02PM +0100, Sandro wrote:
From what I understood, F40 Beta, the official Beta release, available from the website as of March 26, has updates-testing disabled by default. That
Nope.
was confirmed by several people in #devel yesterday when the Fedora Magazine article was still being worked on.
I am pretty sure I said the opposite...
nirik: Branched enables updates-testing... so if you installed f40 anytime, you will have it enabled and if you then applied updates it would be in them nirik: yes, we disable updates-testing by default right before release.
I guess that could have been read as right before beta release, but thats not the case or what I meant. ;)
It's before _Final_ release that we disable updates-testing. It's enabled by default from when we branch the release off until the time right before release when we switch it (usually with a freeze break/blocker bug)
Thanks for clarifying that. Context matters and there was a lot going on in the channel at the time. My wording was to the extend covering composes before Beta was released. I used the the term "pre-Beta".
Good to know that the switch is made "pre-Final".
It's the RC composes that are made after branching and before Beta is declared GO, that have updates-testing enabled by default. I was one of the persons raising that point. I'm less certain wrt upgrades in the period between branching and Beta release.
I think the confusion here is "Beta Release" vs "Final release".
Yup! I was thinking "Beta Release".
We enable updates-testing at branching time all the way until right before "Final release". :)
If that is incorrect and Beta shipped with updates-testing enabled, deliberately or by accident, then I stand corrected.
Yes, it did/does. :)
The logic is that most people who install betas or pre-releases want to help test updates. If for some reason they don't, they can disable it, but the default option is on.
That makes sense. I thought along the same lines as to why it is enabled by default right after branching.
Thanks also to @adamwill and @pbrobinson for further clarification/confirmation later on.
The following sentence in the magazine article:
"Fedora Linux 40 Beta users may have received it from the testing repositories, which are enabled by default in branched versions (i.e. pre-Beta) to assist with testing."
should probably be amended in the light of above. Though, most people affected probably took measures already and new installations won't be affected.
-- Sandro