Fedora 7 Release Candidate 2

mwiebelhaus · #1 26th May 2007, 02:27 AM

Is Fedora 7 Release Candidate 2 a development version or can you use it for production and recive updates? If yes then thank you for this,I switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu to openSUSE 10.2 to this and I like fedora alot.

ppesci · #2 26th May 2007, 02:59 AM

Better wait for the release version thatwill be out soon (May 31) I think.

mwiebelhaus · #3 26th May 2007, 03:18 AM

K thanks but if i installl know will it update once the release comes out?

#4 26th May 2007, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by mwiebelhaus

K thanks but if i installl know will it update once the release comes out?

if you install now?.. the test release? it will if you download the appropiate packages

mbokil · #5 26th May 2007, 03:54 AM

I downloaded the ISO file and installed the RPM's by using yum localupdate *.rpm. I updated from Test 4. Seems to work fine. No problems yet.

I saw the test name scroll onto my screen "Moonshine." Makes we want to rent the Dukes of Hazard DVD and bang on a banjo.

#6 26th May 2007, 04:21 AM

what KDE packages are in F7 RC2? is there KDE 3.5.7?

ajamison · #7 26th May 2007, 04:38 AM

Alsoo if you update through Yum will you eventually have to change Yum to the stable repos or will it do this on the release date

mwiebelhaus · #8 26th May 2007, 04:21 PM

Ok im going to install it and go from there i go or im getting red hat but fedora looks better that reh hat to me.

Stian1979 · #9 26th May 2007, 05:41 PM

Is it posible to use yum to update to fedora 7 yet or do I have to ask agian in a couple of days?

If it is posible did annyone do it yet and without truble?

JN4OldSchool · #10 26th May 2007, 06:04 PM

ah well, it's good to know that with all these people using a test release as a base or trying to upgrade from a previous version that we wont go out of business here trying to help people fix their screwed up computers

SlowJet · #11 26th May 2007, 06:14 PM

lol
Yes, quite funny

f7-r2 is still development
and there is no reps for it in the installed version of f7-rc2 yet.
So how will the development repo (that does not exit) get changed to f7 repo by doing a yum update?

Let me know when someone figures that out.

SJ

ajamison · #12 26th May 2007, 06:44 PM

You have to add the stable Repos manually or enable them by editing the repo files or if you use Yumex you can edit them that way.

I made a seperate profile in Yumex that is the inverse of the development one I.E Development repos are off and stable one are on

SlowJet · #13 26th May 2007, 06:52 PM

But they don't exist yet?

They will on May 31st
and I think there will be a different iso set for the release. (don't know for sure but then no one else in the general public knows either..)

It is only 5 days and the torrent will be overloaded for a week and there will be updates fixes needed so to install before say June 11-13th would be a waste of time if you are running an updated development or f7-r2.

But I have a feeling most will go crazy on or before June 1st.

SJ

ajamison · #14 26th May 2007, 07:23 PM

Yes but you can set up the Repos and just not use them till they go live the format is the same for repos

SlowJet · #15 26th May 2007, 07:34 PM

How do you know that the name will be the same? assuming.
Have you tested the yumuptd process to make sure it doesn't crash.

If you make the change pre rc2 install, how do you know which packages you are getting before May 31st (the last 2 days of buggy packages of kernel, anaconda, pungi, etc OR a newer version that has not been compiled yet? And will yet a newer nwer verison contain the bug fixes for smartd, bluetooth, LVM, etc.)

All I am saying is it's not soup yet.

SJ