Fedora 6.93 to Fedora 7 update

Langdon Stevenson langdon at lindenrow.com.au
Thu May 31 08:56:17 UTC 2007


Thanks Renich, will do. LS

> Wait until 9 am CDT... it's when the mirrors will be open...
> 
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:50 +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> 
>>> 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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