Re: Fedora 6.93 to Fedora 7 update

[Langdon Stevenson <langdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> > I have a Fedora 7 test 4 system that has just decided that it wants to 
> > download 124 updates.  Am I right to assume that this update 
> > represents the final release of Fedora 7 and that I won't need to do 
> > anything else to it?
> I expect not.
>
> You would need to just update fedora-release first. This updates the yum 
> repo files to point to the fedora 7 release repos. Then {maybe need a 
> yum clean metadata dbcache ?} yum update. If you were already up to date 
> {from the development repo on F7t4} then there should only be minimal 
> changes.
>
> I think you are seeing the packages that have been held of development 
> while the release is knocked into shape -> ie what will eventually 
> become F8.

Hi Dave

Thanks for the explanation.  I will update the yum repository files as 
suggested and see where that takes me.

Regards,
Langdon