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

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I'm ready to start my application testing on a Fedora 21 virtual
machine. What's the quickest way for me to get one built? Is there a
'net install' ISO file somewhere I can use?

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:38 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10.07.2014 18:31, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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>> On 07/10/2014 11:45 AM, poma wrote:
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>>> On 10.07.2014 13:11, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>
>
> Done deal, thanks.
>
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>> We're working to figure out how to get that to install by default on
>> upgrades.
>
>
> Good luck with that!
>
>
>> (Alternately, feel free to use -server or -workstation as well, if you
>> want to move towards that environment going forward).
>
>
> Those two goes camping in virtwood. :)
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> poma
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