When will KDE4.2 hit the F10 Stable repo... (nice work, btw...)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 07:41 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:59 -0500, RDB wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 20:05:13 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:09 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > > > So if I want to try KDE 4.2 on F10 how should I do it ? Which repository
> > > > should I use ? Is the info in KDE-Redhat page still correct, or will this
> > > > in some Fedora testing repository ?
> > >
> > > If you just want to test it or play around a bit, I would download the
> > > latest informal "Rex" release and make it bootable on a USB mass storage
> > > device.  If it isn't released as stable, I wouldn't enable a testing
> > > repository on a production computer.
> > 
> > Thanks, but that's not what I meant. I want to install it to my home machine, 
> > and willing to use beta software to help testing it out. So is it on Fedora 
> > testing repository ? How do install just KDE from the testing ?
> 
> I believe that if you enable the F10 testing repository and then do a
> yum update, everything will install automagically.   The new packages
> will have higher version numbers and later dates and yum will install
> them on your machine.
> 
> If you get lucky, when its fully released, you can remove the testing
> repository and over time the stable packages will take over and you
> might have a totally stable machine.
> 
> Someone correct me if I am wrong. 

Yes and no. If you just blindly do a "yum update" with updates-testing
enabled, you'll get testing versions of everything you have installed,
which may or may not be good. My usual practice is to do "yum
--enablerepo=updates-testing update <package>" which presumably lessens
the risk somewhat.

poc