(Rawhide users) Fedora 22 branching: What You Need To Know

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 07/10/2014 11:45 AM, poma wrote:
> On 10.07.2014 13:11, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 
>> One thing I discovered last night. There's a bug with the new 
>> fedora-release packages and yum/dnf are kind of arbitrarily
>> picking from fedora-release-[standard|cloud|server|workstation]
>> to install if you just update. (This is in large part because
>> these are just placeholder packages and don't have any content in
>> them yet).
>> 
>> To avoid issues going forward, before you do the distro-sync
>> above, you probably want to 'yum install
>> fedora-release-$something' where $something is either 'standard'
>> (for non-productized Fedora) or one of the Products, which your
>> environment will evolve more into the closer we get to Alpha.
>> 
>> I'll try to work out what we need to do to make that transition 
>> cleaner from F20->F21, but for Rawhide->F21 it's going to be a
>> bit manual for a while.
> 
> # grep fedora-release /var/log/yum.log ... Updated:
> fedora-release-21-0.9.noarch ... Erased:
> fedora-release-rawhide-21-0.7.noarch
> 
> Is this enough to stay on F21 or I still need e.g. 
> 'fedora-release-standard' for non-product-specific, that is as we
> use now on Fedora 20?
> 

You'll want to install fedora-release-standard manually right now to
make sure you have the right version going forward.

We're working to figure out how to get that to install by default on
upgrades.

(Alternately, feel free to use -server or -workstation as well, if you
want to move towards that environment going forward).

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