Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Anthony Messina wrote: > >>> I guess my expectation was that most of the "development" packages >>> would become standard versions by the time FC-5 came out. >> >> yes, the packages will become official, if that's what you mean, but >> your computer will have yum configured for all the devel repos, not >> the standard repos which means whenever you do a yum update, you'll >> be updating to the latest devel stuff. >> i may be mistaken, it is possible for the upgrader to automatically >> change all this stuff, but i'm not sure that it does. >> any expert answers out there? >> > Releases are snapshots of the current development tree which is frozen > for sometime to stabilize. This is a relatively short duration for > test releases and longer for general releases.If you have enabled the > development repository, you will have to disable it manually before > Fedora Core 5 is released or you will move to into the development > branch headed for the subsequent release which is Fedora Core 6. > So if I enable the release repo instead of devel repo on the release date, can I get a system same as one installed from scratch? I'm very curious of this question since I have been using fedora 5 devel since test 1 and have configured it a bit. Really don't want to re-install everything. > If you are installing the test/development branch just to get to a > head start, be aware that the development releases may have debugging > options enabled and are intended for testers to provide feedback to > developers through the fedora-test list discussions and bug reports in > http://bugzilla.redhat.com. More serious testing would be very useful > to get a better final release out of the door though. > > > > -- Rahul Will the debug option get disabled approaching release date? Thanks -- Leon
