Re: Fedora 8

Jon Nettleton wrote :

> With Fedora 8 out for general consumption, I was wondering what
> direction freshrpms was taking.  I know that http://www.rpmfusion.org
> was started, but hasn't released a publicly consumable repo yet.  If I
> can lend a hand just let me know.

Yeah... for the first time ever, I didn't set up a website on the
release day... but a freshrpms repository for Fedora 8 is available,
the only catch is that it's mostly all of the Fedora 7 packages, with
only the packages requiring new dependencies which have been rebuilt
(cinelerra, vlc, mplayer, xine-lib-moles and a few others).

To use freshrpms for Fedora 8, just download the usual
freshrpms-release package and you're good to go.

But the whole point is to invest my time into RPM Fusion indeed, which
will ultimately replace the freshrpms repositories, and I'll make extra
sure it'll provide a clean upgrade path.

So there should be no risk in updating from F7+freshrpms to
F8+freshrpms, it should "just work", same for enabling freshrpms on a
new F8 install. And in the near future, just installing similar
rpmfusion-release packages (possibly two, a "free" and a "nonfree" one)
will automatically switch any system from freshrpms to RPM Fusion ;-)

I hope this cleared a few things up... I'll try to write this on the
freshrpms website to reach more users, as I'm sure many have the same
concerns.

Matthias

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