F14 already...

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Thu Mar 4 13:19:42 UTC 2010


On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 08:14:48PM +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Mike Chambers wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 09:29 +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>>>> Yesterdays update of my test machine brought it to Fedora 14, but I would
>>>> rather follow the F13 line. I understand the No_Frozen_Rawhide effort, but
>>>> did I miss the branch point to follow F13 instead moving further
>>>> with rawhide?
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Implementation
>>
>> Sorry if it is not obvious, but I've read it. But I still do not see a
>> description what should be done to remain on an F13 track instead jumping
>> to F14.
>
> I would expect that it is enough to install fedora-release-13-0.6
> instead of fedora-release-14-0.3 which you have now.
> 'rpm -U --oldpackage ....' should do but editing of /etc/fedora-release
> likely be helpful for a start.  After that try 'yum update'.
>
>> Do I understand ir correctly that I've crossed the point of no
>> return and I can not test F13 anymore (without reinstallation, which I am
>> not willing to do)?
>
> Not really but you may end up with some packages where you need to
> install a different version and some "manual" fiddling may be
> required.  See 'man yum' and look for 'downgrade' to help you with
> that.

So for those wishing to waste the same amount of time and bandwidth I did:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage fedora-release-13-0.6.noarch.rpm
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME} %{RELEASE}\n" | grep fc14 | sort | \
cut -f1 -d\  | xargs yum -y downgrade

is base to get back to f13 track.

>   Michal

Adam Pribyl


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