Re: [OT] Is Rawhide usable for day-to-day operation - reply when you've time, no hurry

[David Timms <dtimms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arijit Sarkar wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > Fedora is more like Debian's testing, or Ubuntu's mainline. I run it 
> > on a separate system, where I want to play with the latest technology. 
> > The pooter has hardware virtualisation, and I use Xen.
>
> Yes, this seems a good solution. I have to make some free space on my 
> desktop and use Fedora with 'testing' repository enabled.
> Is it okay to mix up both fedora-stable and testing softwares together? 
In fact, packages that are released to the testing repo are potential 
stable updates. Packages usually {except security fixes} normally spend 
a couple of weeks in testing so that members of the fedora testing 
community may use the package - hopefully finding any issues - and 
reporting the issues in bugzilla. In that case the test update may be 
canned, and a new test update built.

On the other hand if there is positive comment and no problems noticed 
on the test package, it will be requested to be placed in the normal 
fedora-updates repo. The only difference between the two packages is in 
the rpm signature that is applied to the package; hence you don't need 
to {and couldn't easily} update your testing package to stable because 
it is the identical version-release as from testing.

It is a good idea to subscribe to the fedora-test-list to see the Fedora 
X Test Update announcements, and comments - so that you might see issues 
that others have already brought up.

DaveT.