Heads up for rawhide users: if you missed an update, you're stuck

[drago01]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Mike Bonnet <mikeb at redhat.com> wrote:
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>
>>> Just a note to rawhide users who don't update every day: if you missed
>>> the upgrade to rpm-4.6.0-8.fc11, you now cannot read many (and soon
>>> all) packages in rawhide, including the current version of the rpm
>>> package.  I believe there was a two day window to do this, so if you
>>> haven't updated since Tuesday you might be stuck.
>>>
>>> To get going again, visit koji and manually download the -8 packages
>>> for your arch, update them manually, and then let yum update you the
>>> rest of the way.
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=83804
>>
>> This is just totally bogus.
>>
>> Rpm 4.6.0 final, which has been in rawhide since Februare 6th, and
>> recently submitted to F10 as update can handle the new packages just
>> fine. Only the 4.6.0-rcX versions cant cope.
>
> I will note that F11 Alpha contained rpm-4.6.0-0.rc3.2.fc11, so a fresh
> install of the alpha can not be updated.

Upgrades from testX* releases to final where never supported (well
most of the time they work but its not something where QA is spent
on).

*alpha/beta should have the same status