RFC: changing versioning of fedora-release in rawhide

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 14:50 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Josh Boyer (jwboyer at gmail.com) said: 
> > > > That requires going to another repo/web page/irc client/source of information
> > > > to figure out and download whatever that version is.
> > > 
> > > You can use koji's downloadbuild (or whatever it's called) without too
> > > much trouble.  This is rawhide after all.  Not for the faint of heart.
> > 
> > Right, but you still have to know *what the old version is*. And that
> > would still work for my proposal - what I don't understand is why we'd
> > be wedded to the current practice of shipping intentionally broken repo
> > files.
> 
> I'd go an alternate route -- let's instead have the mirrorlists redirect
> to rawhide for versions like 8.90, etc and get rid of the separate
> development repository.  If you want to jump versions, change your
> fedora-release.  This then gives us some nice consistency 

Then how do you switch to rawhide from a regular install?

Bill