Fedora 6.93 to Fedora 7 update

Langdon Stevenson langdon at lindenrow.com.au
Thu May 31 07:50:08 UTC 2007


> Langdon Stevenson wrote:
>> I have a Fedora 7 test 4 system that has just decided that it wants to 
>> download 124 updates.  Am I right to assume that this update 
>> represents the final release of Fedora 7 and that I won't need to do 
>> anything else to it?
> I expect not.
> 
> You would need to just update fedora-release first. This updates the yum 
> repo files to point to the fedora 7 release repos. Then {maybe need a 
> yum clean metadata dbcache ?} yum update. If you were already up to date 
> {from the development repo on F7t4} then there should only be minimal 
> changes.
> 
> I think you are seeing the packages that have been held of development 
> while the release is knocked into shape -> ie what will eventually 
> become F8.

Hi Dave

Thanks for the explanation.  I will update the yum repository files as 
suggested and see where that takes me.

Regards,
Langdon




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