How to stay on appropriate updates for F8 testing

[John Summerfield]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Todd Denniston wrote:
>> Please forgive, this is my first rawhide to release experience.
>> Which (yum) repositories[2] should I be following to keep my machine 
>> up-to-date for testing and reporting against the F8 set?  I can't get 
>> the ISOs because of no torrent access, but I want to be able to give 
>> good feed back through the planned GA release date[1].
>>
>> I ask because a few messages[3]  have been confusing (to me) in the 
>> last few days.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule
>>
>> [2] fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/ ??
>>     fedora/linux/updates/???
> 
> Enable base and updates and disable devel repository. They are currently 
> redirected server side to the devel repo but will automatically redirect 
> to the release repo when Fedora 8 is released.
> 
> Rahul
> 

I'm even more confused. I presume "base" means "fedora."

I have these enabled, and no others:

[root at potoroo ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/* | egrep '^\[|enabled=' | grep 
-B1 enabled=1
[updates]
enabled=1
--
[fedora]
enabled=1
[root at potoroo ~]#


I've not seen any updates for some days, my last are these:
[root at potoroo ~]# rpm -qa kernel\*
kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-31.fc8
kernel-2.6.23.1-23.fc8
kernel-2.6.23.1-31.fc8
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-31.fc8
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-23.fc8
kernel-xen-2.6.21-2950.fc8
[root at potoroo ~]# tail  /var/log/yum.log-20071026
Oct 25 20:46:44 Updated: sane-backends-libs - 1.0.18-17.fc8.i386
Oct 25 20:47:20 Updated: evolution - 2.12.1-3.fc8.i386
Oct 25 20:47:22 Updated: hpijs - 1:2.7.7-6.fc8.i386
Oct 25 20:47:24 Updated: NetworkManager-gnome - 
1:0.7.0-0.3.svn2983.fc8.x86_64
Oct 25 20:47:26 Updated: xsane-gimp - 0.994-4.fc8.x86_64
Oct 25 20:47:35 Updated: evolution-help - 2.12.1-3.fc8.x86_64
Oct 25 20:47:46 Updated: gnome-screensaver - 2.20.0-8.fc8.x86_64
Oct 25 20:47:49 Installed: fedorainfinity-screensaver-theme - 
1.0.0-1.fc8.noarch
Oct 25 20:52:48 Erased: libgssapi
Oct 25 20:54:25 Erased: redhat-artwork
[root at potoroo ~]#

I am surprised there's no newer kernel-xen

I am sceptical that this is accurate, I thought that updates were being 
made past the date of this package:
[root at potoroo ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
[root at potoroo ~]#



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