On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:

Hi,

What do I need to alter on up2date or the nightly yum updater to install rawhide on my testing box?

wrt yum - you can have the following in /etc/yum.conf (with appropriate mirror) ---------------------------------------------------------- [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=fedora-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1

[fedora-dev] name=Fedora Development(rawhide) baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/i386 ----------------------------------------------------------

And run 'yum upgrade'

You might want to back up the current yum.conf - and make sure there is plenty of free space in /var (or use different location for 'cachedir')

As of today - there are no conflicting packages in rawhide. But if there are, you can add the following line (assuming you know what packages to exclude) to /etc/yum.conf in the main section.

exclude=pkg1 pkg2 ..

'yum -d4 upgrade' usually gives more info on the conflicts - which you can try and decipher to indentify the packages to exclude. (usually the conflicts get fixed in a day or two - but then - those updates can have new conflicts)

Satish