[Was: Countdown is on... 13 days until F12 stable] - changing repos?

[Bill Davidsen]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:38:08PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 14:29:25 +1100,
>>   Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
>>> Bruno,
>>>
>>> thanks for the response.  I have:
>>>
>>> adobe-linux-i386.repo
>>> fedora-rawhide.repo
>>> fedora-updates-testing.repo
>>> fedora-updates.repo
>>> fedora.repo
>>> rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
>>>
>>> and only "fedora-rawhide.repo" mentions "rawhide" in the mirrorlist
>>> variable - all the others look normal to me.  Should I delete
>>> "fedora-rawhide.repo" ?
>> You want to check that fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo are enabled and
>> fedora-rawhide is disabled. Usually at this point references to the mirror
>> manager for the upcoming release are redirected to the current rawhide
>> repo. Once the release is made, the mirror manager stops doing that.
> 
> And furthermore, the fedora-release RPM is updated.  Which means that
> unless you've made changes to the repo configuration files manually,
> you should be seamlessly transferred to the Fedora 12 branch.  IIRC
> you have to take manual action to stay on the Rawhide branch after
> that point.
> 
That's my recollection, the whole cutover process works perfectly without 
intervention, unless you want to continue to drag yourself down the bleeding edge.

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