Do I need to disable the testing repo now that F42 is released?

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Hi,

For about one month ago, I upgraded my F41 to F42 while still in beta,

I just wanted to ask if I need to disable the testing repo now. I haven’t update this system for the past 10 days or so if that is relevant.

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I guess it is. Have a look into hostnamectl if it states as prerelease first thing i would do is update the system and recheck hostnamectl. The per-release part should have been gone now.

You can also verifier with sudo dnf repolist if testing is deactivated after update your system first.

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Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)

$ dnf repolist
repo id                                                                                         repo name                                                                                                            
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm                                                  Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek                                                                               
fedora                                                                                          Fedora 42 - x86_64                                                                                                   
fedora-cisco-openh264                                                                           Fedora 42 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                                             
updates                                                                                         Fedora 42 - x86_64 - Updates

Seems to be alright, doesn’t it?

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There’s a update to the fedora-repos package that goes out just before release that disables updates-testing. :wink: It appears you have that update, so all should be fine.

Note that there is sometimes a very corner case where you have something installed from updates-testing that needs something else from updates-testing and you get a mismatch error trying to install it. In those cases you can just re-enable updates-testing or do a ‘distro-sync’ to sync up to only updates packages.

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Thanks for the heads up @kevin ! I’ll keep an eye on the updates. Hopefully it’ll be fine. If I run into the issue you have mentioned, I’ll proceed as per your suggestion.