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

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jul 30 06:59:04 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 02:16 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-07-29 22:51 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
> 
> >> how do those who want to keep a system on Rawhide instead of
> >> switching to branch after each branch occurs do it?
> 
> > There isn't a particularly easy way, you just have to make sure
> > fedora-release-rawhide is installed and tweak the enabled repos, AFAIK.
> > I guess if you edited the .repo files directly they wouldn't get
> > overridden on updates?
> 
> If by "tweaking" you mean manual manipulation of /etc/yum.repos.d/ content, 
> I'd need a howto. I don't do so well on my own messing with config files 
> containing $ &/or ? in URLs.

No, I actually use the GUI (!!!) for that. I've no idea what it does,
but it works.
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