Different Fedora 8 releases?

[daviddoria]

I have a Fedora 8 DVD that I downloaded a few months ago. My question is, if I download it again, will it have more fixes/patches? Or is it frozen when it is released so you always have to install the original 8.0 and then run all the updates once it is installed?

If there are in fact different releases, how can I tell by looking at the dvd that I already have?

Thanks!

David

[PabloTwo]

You can get updated versions of Fedora by downloading one of the "respins". See here:

http://spins.fedoraunity.org/

[daviddoria]

Ok - so there is the
Fedora 8 Everything Spin
and then
Fedora Unity Re-Spin F8 20080204

Which one should I use?

Also I see there is an F7 from Jan 2008, so they keep updating F7 even after F8 is officially released?

David

[ryptyde]

Originally Posted by daviddoria

Ok - so there is the
Fedora 8 Everything Spin
and then
Fedora Unity Re-Spin F8 20080204

Which one should I use?

Also I see there is an F7 from Jan 2008, so they keep updating F7 even after F8 is officially released?

David

If you use jigdo to fetch and create the images you will be given a choice of 24 different iso's for 3 different architectures-i386-x86_64 and ppc. Then from the choices you can have the option of creating CD's or a DVD.

What I have done is create a Jigdo directory in home and then openeed a terminal within that directory as a regular user and entered:

jigdo-lite http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/20080204/Fedora-Unity-20080204-8.jigdo

Then after a bit of downloading the templates you should be presented with a screen of 24 choices that you choose one at a time. Here's the choices:

Images offered by `http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/20080204/Fedora-Unity-20080204-8.jigdo':
1: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-i386-CD1.iso
2: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-i386-CD2.iso
3: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-i386-CD3.iso
4: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-i386-CD4.iso
5: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-i386-CD5.iso
6: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-i386-DVD.iso
7: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-i386-rescuecd.iso
8: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-CD1.iso
9: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-CD2.iso
10: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-CD3.iso
11: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-CD4.iso
12: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-CD5.iso
13: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-CD6.iso
14: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-DVD.iso
15: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-x86_64-rescuecd.iso
16: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-CD1.iso
17: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-CD2.iso
18: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-CD3.iso
19: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-CD4.iso
20: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-CD5.iso
21: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-CD6.iso
22: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-DVD.iso
23: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-ppc-rescuecd.iso
24: Fedora-Unity-20080204-8-source-DVD.iso
Number of image to download:

enter the number of the image you want and it will begin downloading. It may take a while depending on your connection speed and also on the speed of where a package may be located. Be patient.

Fedora LifeCycle:

Fedora Project maintains any particular release of Fedora for a month after final release of the second following release. For example, Fedora 8 will be maintained until a month after Fedora 10 is released. Since new releases of Fedora occur approximately every 6 months, this translates into approximately 13 months of updates for every release. This schedule allows end users to optionally skip every other release and directly upgrade from Fedora N to Fedora N+2 release.

[daviddoria]

cool - thanks for the info

the only think i still dont get is the difference between the "spin" and the "re-spin"

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

A respin includes updates for a release. So a Fedora 8 respin will include more updates than a Fedora 8 general release version.