Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90)

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:20 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> 
>> I tried an FTP install but it failed. I noticed however that the 
>> "test/6.90" directories have been locked down again. They were accessible 
>> when I downloaded the net-install image but now I get a "permission denied" 
>> error (I tried a few mirrors). During the install I got the following error:
>>
>> Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to a missing repodata
>> directory.  Please ensure that your install treee has been correctly
>> generated.  Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:
>> anaconda-base-XXXXXXXXXX.i386
>>
>> Not sure if this has something to do with the sudden unavailability of the 
>> directories but if the anaconda-base file gets pulled from there that might 
>> explain it.
> 
> As far as YOUR error, I think that might have to do with rawhide getting
> new packages today and maybe later today and mirrors not sync'd up yet.
> Try later or a different mirror to see what happens.
> 
Rawhide lives under "development" and test1 lives under "test" so the 
rawhide updates shouldn't really play a role in this. If the test releases 
would rely on a dynamic package repository how could you possibly file sane 
bug reports?

Regards,
   Dennis