How to install Rawhide?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:28:09 +0100
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:55:37 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> > > 1. "fedup --network rawhide" : failed with a missing image?
> > >    Why doesn't it work by default?
> > 
> > Strange. The mirrormanager mirrorlist for images looks good here,
> > and the images look fine. Ah... it's because they are not signed. 
> 
>   | Downloading failed: couldn't get boot images: No more mirrors to
> try. | Last error was: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
> 
> > Re-run with --nogpgcheck? 
> 
> D'oh! That seems to lead to something. A Fedora-specific tool could
> really know about "rawhide" and tell about --nogpgcheck being needed.
> 
> > fedup could emit a better error here. 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193599
> 
> Brand-new ticket, yes, that seems to be the issue.

Yes, I filed it when I was looking at this. :) 

> One can never be sure due to mirror servers that may or may not
> carry the stuff that's needed.

It's in mirrormanager, so it gets a metalink of mirrors that claim to
have that content. 
 
> > > 3. Search Google. Find a Fedora Wiki page. Wait many minutes for
> > > an "app" to respond. Scroll down on a hardly readable list of ISO
> > > images
> > 
> > Which wiki page? which 'app' ?
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide/de
> 
>  -> English
>      (because the translation could be out-of-date, it doesn't mention
> 	  fedup at all, and the links to koji aren't fast either when
> showing the list of images to download - a slow koji query!)

Yeah, we should mention fedup and we should also mention adams new
'fedfind' tool. 

kevin

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