Rawhide moving on to Fedora 12 content

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Two mails from fedora-devel FYI:

On 05.06.2009 07:09, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I've made the switch tonight so that rawhide will be Fedora 12
> content. This will cause a huge number of updates, if the compose
> actually finishes, and will finish quite late.
> 
> For the next few days, attempts to use mirror manager for the Fedora
> 11 repo will fail.  This is something we hope to fix at the Fedora
> Activity Day next week.
> 
> 
> Thanks for putting up with the delays as we try to get Fedora 11 out
> the door!

On 05.06.2009 18:02, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 10:36 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
>> Couldn't this have waited until F11 was out?
> Previous releases we've waited longer, but given that F12 is a short 
> release cycle, and that we delayed F11 release twice it was
> important that we get rawhide moving on for the sake of F12.
>> Else the people that are testing F11-preview will be out of luck
>> with using yum to install or update.
>> 
>> Or did I understand incorrectly the comment above?
> They'll have access to the updates and updates-testing repo, just
> not the 'fedora' repo.  It is a bit of an inconvenience for users for
> a few days.

Actually it's quite an "inconvenience" for us, too, because it kind of
removes the package tree we build against right now for devel/f11. J-rod
and I saved a copy of rawhide tree on the ppc and one of the x86
builders, but things might be a bit bumpy over the next few days.

CU
knurd