Re: Fedora 6.93 to Fedora 7 update

[Renich Bon Ciric]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:47 +1000, David Timms wrote:

>  Langdon Stevenson wrote:
>  > I have a Fedora 7 test 4 system that has just decided that it wants to 
>  > download 124 updates.  Am I right to assume that this update represents 
>  > the final release of Fedora 7 and that I won't need to do anything else 
>  > to it?
>  I expect not.
>  
>  You would need to just update fedora-release first. This updates the yum 
>  repo files to point to the fedora 7 release repos. Then {maybe need a 
>  yum clean metadata dbcache ?} yum update. If you were already up to date 
>  {from the development repo on F7t4} then there should only be minimal 
>  changes.
>  
>  I think you are seeing the packages that have been held of development 
>  while the release is knocked into shape -> ie what will eventually 
>  become F8. 
I noticed the .F8.$ARCH.rpm string on the files to be updated... I will
try the yum update too... right after installing the fedora-release rpm
for F7

>  
>  DaveT.
>   
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