Fedora Core 2 : release open delay!

[Pegasus]

The schedule on fedora.redhat.com has been changed: release open is now May, 18th

[Ug]

Damn.

[foolish]

I like how you keep us updated, but two identical threads?

[Pegasus]

I made only one (I'm User, NO create access to News) ;)

[ewdi]

I moved it to news, thx pegasus.

But will the mirror gets FC2 by tomorrow morning as scheduled?

[jrblevin]

That sucks, but wait, it still says they are releasing it to the mirrors in the morning (May 14). Does that mean that the mirrors won't actually have it online until the 18th or just that the release isn't official until then?

[ewdi]

sync to mirror will take time, so i dont think it will be complete by tomorrow, however ISO will not be available yet until 18th

[Ug]

Originally posted by tux
I moved it to news, thx pegasus.

But will the mirror gets FC2 by tomorrow morning as scheduled? I'm the guilty party actually. I just did a copy. So shoot me. :p

[jrblevin]

thats all good then, i'm going to do do an NFS install from another box anyhow...can't wait on the isos :)

[Pegasus]

Originally posted by tux
But will the mirror gets FC2 by tomorrow morning as scheduled?
Prepare for a delay, also :(

[Ug]

They have got several days to sort themselves out, don't forget.

[jrblevin]

Just logged on to download.fedora.redhat.com and saw this:

ncftp /pub/fedora/linux/core > ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 7 ftp ftp 4096 May 13 19:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 ftp ftp 4096 Nov 04 2003 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 ftp ftp 4096 Mar 01 16:39 1
drwx------ 4 ftp ftp 4096 May 13 19:07 2
drwxrwsr-x 11 ftp ftp 4096 May 12 10:43 development
drwxr-xr-x 6 ftp ftp 4096 Apr 23 03:58 test
drwxrwsr-x 4 ftp ftp 4096 Nov 12 2003 updates

Makes ya wonder what's in that directory :)

[ghaefb]

Makes ya wonder what's in that directory
Yep.

What about on http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
Will FC2 be released before may 18th ?
Like FC2t3

[heimdall]

Oops, better update the calendar:

FedoraForum > Calendar > 2004-05-17

Birthdays nathan (18), waskyjt (19)
Type: Public Event (posted by Ug)
Subject: Fedora Core 2 Released
Event Information: Fedora Core 2 released today!

[cathal]

can't wait for fedora 2, just spotted that directory on download.fedora.redhat.com. Bring on the 18th...

[mark]

"They also serve who only stand and wait."
Milton, John

"Patience my a**, I'm gonna kill something."
Vulture, Unknown

[Finalzone]

Perhaps 4STACKS will be disabled on the final release for NVidia users.

[espique]

hi,

now that most of the mirrors carry the FC2 final branch, I am wondering how to update from 1.92 (t3)? just put in the repositories to yum.conf and do yum update?

and what are all the different RPMS.* directories? there is a *.os, a *.stable etc. - what is what?

Thanks,
Sascha

[harlekin]

the different RPMS.xxx directories r for the different types for repos

there might be a bunch of users that dont want 2 download the testing or unstable packages and only want 2 use os and stable
thats why they put the packages in different directories so u can edit ur yum.conf (or source.list for apt / synAPTic) just 2 fit ur preferences

u can upgrade to core2 via yum/apt but thats not recommend (means there will not be automatic downgrade of packages and the update routine from t3 to core 2 is not well tested...)
better download the iso and start a new installation (see also the howto thread for the upgrade from t3 to core2)

[espique]

ok thanks. what's the difference between RPMS.os and RPMS.stable?

sascha

[Pegasus]

mirrors have it!!
Don't know whish mirrors you use, but:
Except one of the shown fedora.redhat.com mirrors NONE has the "core/2/" dirs. And if so (changes this day), the permission is denied(550).

Also i've seen several upgrade posts in this forum according systems that have already been changed FC2T3 -> FC2 release.
Installing "fedora-release-2-4" using up2date, yum etc. is not a signal that you have a final version now.

[espique]

well, the major european (german) mirror site DO have it. since FC2 has been frozen a couple of days ago and since the mirrors were only updated yesterday, I must assume this is final code. example:

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/2/i386/

world readable. enjoy.

sascha

[STiAT]

As written on the pages, the freeze day is friday, 14th of may. You can expect that the i386 RPM-Dirs carrie the final core2 (tu-chemnitz)

I guess the next days they'll be busy with the installer, packing the isos and setting up the iso mirrors and torrent servers.

// STi
PS: cant you wait until its for sure the final, and the fedora guys release it open to the mirrors, and annaunce the release on the page?

[espique]

sure I can wait. but that's not the point...

[Pegasus]

And while taking a look, no question raised ?

# taken from ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/
apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.10.1.90.i386.rpm 826 KB 29.02.2004 22:03:00
apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.fdr.11.1.91.i386.rpm 846 KB 09.04.2004 15:26:00
...
bluefish-0.12-0.fdr.1.1.90.i386.rpm 747 KB 14.02.2004 22:33:00
bluefish-0.13-0.fdr.2.1.91.i386.rpm 1436 KB 13.04.2004 17:45:00
...
cabextract-0.6-0.fdr.2.1.90.i386.rpm 26 KB 14.02.2004 22:33:00
cabextract-1.0-0.fdr.1.1.91.i386.rpm 44 KB 20.04.2004 18:31:00
...

[micha]

Originally posted by espique
and what are all the different RPMS.* directories? there is a *.os, a *.stable etc. - what is what? OS and Update are the official packages from Redhat. Stable, Testing, Unstable, Update-Testing are the packages from Fedora Extras (http://fedora.us).

[s0lus]

I really hope they fix the 4k_stacks config problem...ive been waiting to be able to update my nvidia drivers so i can play some of my games...neeeed games....

im so impatient...

3 days....

[micha]

Is 4K_stacks the problem or the nVidia drivers ? The 4k stacks bring some improvements, so I guess nVidia is gonna have to adapt to that.

[s0lus]

o definently...what i should have posted was that i cant wait for FC2 to come out so that Nvidia will actually put out a working driver for it...they dont care for drivers used with 'Tests'... I will have to just wait...

I spent a long time trying to get the driver to work with no luck... Did everything by the book, but when it came to editing the XFconfig or the Xorg.conf file...i was confused which one was used...

finally found it was the xorg.conf and when i changed that with the proper settings my comp would boot up, yet when X was about to start, totally lock up and then after awhile reboot...:(

[macemoneta]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/16/1333210&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=110&tid=185&tid=187

[Pegasus]

# ftp structure for [mirror]/fedora/core/2/i386/iso
# available may,18th!
FC2-i386-disc1.iso 2004-05-13 636.61 MB
FC2-i386-disc2.iso 2004-05-13 634.96 MB
FC2-i386-disc3.iso 2004-05-13 638.02 MB
FC2-i386-disc4.iso 2004-05-13 194.30 MB
FC2-i386-DVD.iso 2004-05-13 4.07 GB
FC2-i386-rescuecd.iso 2004-05-13 75.85 MB
FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 2004-05-13 497.80 MB
FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso 2004-05-13 497.81 MB
FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso 2004-05-13 497.79 MB
FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso 2004-05-13 497.83 MB
MD5SUM 2004-05-14 791 Bytes

[ghaefb]

What??? Is FC2 released ?
(slashdot news)

[Ug]

To the torrent - but its being uploaded to mirrors now ready to be made available on Tuesday.

[macemoneta]

Originally posted by ghaefb
What??? Is FC2 released ?
(slashdot news)

Yes, as a Bittorrent (CD and DVD). The MD5SUMS are cryptographically signed and match the files (see this message (http://livna.org/~anvil/fc2-torrents.txt) ), confirming they are authentic.


# cat /home/redhat/MD5SUM
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

c366d585853768283dac6cdcefcd3a2d FC2-i386-disc1.iso
fc3c926442cc85a469268651bd04c186 FC2-i386-disc2.iso
5ad870e696953f4bbd0a91936873890e FC2-i386-disc3.iso
c736f8048b12315b5c0b070de1d74867 FC2-i386-disc4.iso
2d8a20014af287bf8c6b29f2da031f98 FC2-i386-DVD.iso
22f4bfca5baefe89f0e04166e738639f FC2-i386-rescuecd.iso
0c0268f26ed08d24880119e1b44d45e8 FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
3d17a40489e8dcd3761f166ff264c712 FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso
4e798934b399eb78e9e67dec23d946bb FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso
5d84eb0aecea8bce8e4857d3e46136c3 FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAo8uQtEJp0E8qb9IRAjgnAJ92Rl2f6K/1Z1DCHB6qinau88WYXgCggF4P
1xFVxG7HVYVGJenIv1oSdrQ=
=yWK+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[ghaefb]

So this is the official release of Fedora Core2 final?
If I download this torrent 4CDs, they will be the same as those released may 18th ?
How is this possible.
thanks

[macemoneta]

Originally posted by ghaefb
So this is the official release of Fedora Core2 final?
If I download this torrent 4CDs, they will be the same as those released may 18th ?
How is this possible.
thanks

Yes, this is the official release of Fedora Core2 final. The files were released to the mirrors two days ago; why are you surprised?

[kimatrix]

i already did a upgrade :P (pleas don't kill me now :D)
It seems it's the fc2 becose the mirror is a offical DE mirror that is used in apt-get.

[salah4867]

can any explain for me the diffrence between the mirror and the torrent .

[ewdi]

it takes at least 2 days for mirror to be completed, there is no difference between torrent and mirror files

[macemoneta]

Originally posted by salah4867
can any explain for me the diffrence between the mirror and the torrent .

The mirrors are FTP (file transfer protocol) and HTTP (web browser) file repositories. These depend on a specific set of servers for the distribution of the files.

Bittorrent is a protocol that allows many people to share the bandwidth load (see the official Bittorrent web site (http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html) ). No official servers are (necessarily) used for the distribution.

Since anyone can start a Bittorrent, special precautions have to be taken to insure that the files have not been tampered with. The Fedora Core team has taken these precautions; they include an MD5SUM file which lists the md5sum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum) for each file, and have gpg signed (http://www.gnupg.org/) the file. By doing this, the authenticity of the MD5SUM file can be verified, and the MD5SUM file contents lets you insure that the files have not been tampered with.

[ghenry]

3 hours 54 mins!!!

[Ned]

I can't see it being available until tomorrow morning.

But I'll stay up until after midnight (GMT) just to find out :)

Ned

[jhaislet]

Anyone else had luck with the bittorrent file? I got about 62% of the 4-cd set, and then it just died. I've uploaded about 600mb this afternoon, yet haven't downloaded 1k more than what I had this morning. It says it can't connect to the connection tracker, so does that mean this torrent is totally dead?

[s0lus]

I got to 62% also...i think that is what it was...i think all of the sources dropped out...im waiting till after 12 tonight to see if it comes up on the servers...i really hope so...ive been looking forward to this for awhile...

[Bana]

I got all 4 cd's (md5sum verified) with the bittorrent).

[macemoneta]

The torrent is winding down now, since the official mirrors are about to open. There is also a regular Fedora torrent available at:

http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

That will probably be updated when the official mirrors open.

[octico]

I downloaded the dvd torrent for core2 and it works like a champ. I took about 4 hours on sunday. I just started azureus and watched the Laker game, both completed at the same time.

[Ug]

Dammit.

[ghaefb]

@Ug ??

I'm still waiting for official torrent...

[octico]

why are u waiting for the official file just download the one from the link above it is official

[ghaefb]

http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ ???

Where do you see FC2 here? I only see test3...

[espique]

anyone got the .torrent file pls?

[bahamot]

torrent:
http://fedora.mydealer.org/

[Picomp314]

nope the tracker on that one is down, here is the real one...
http://kuix.de/fedora/

[bahamot]

thanks for the corrections :)