how do I tell what release yum upgrade will give me?

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-07-29 21:54 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 23:56 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> I have one system running 19 last updated 3 months ago, after 19 branched.
>> Release and release-rawhide are both at 19-0.5. How can I tell what yum
>> upgrade would leave me with, whether 19 final or rawhide/20? Presumably,
>> because upgrade last was post-branch, upgrading would remove release-rawhide
>> leaving it on 19? What doc or web doc would answer this. Glancing at several
>> wiki pages covering Rawhide I saw nothing on this subject. IOW, what controls
>> going to branched, or staying on Rawhide? 20 branching is barely a week away.

> Well, if it were me, I'd just run it and see what the list of builds to
> be installed looks like. If it's full of fc19 builds, you're getting
> F19. If it's full of fc20 builds, you're getting Rawhide. If the list
> you see isn't the build you want, just say 'n' and then fiddle with the
> fedora-release packages...

As expected, no fc20 packages were in the list. Maybe a better question might 
have been: how do those who want to keep a system on Rawhide instead of 
switching to branch after each branch occurs do it?
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