Updating with Yum

For most users, yum is the easiest way to update Fedora Core systems. For details, please consult Managing Software with yum.

How To Download Updates

There are three categories of updates:

• Fedora Updates
• Proposed Fedora Updates
• Development Packages

Fedora Core Updates

Security updates, bugfix updates, and new feature updates can be downloaded from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/

In this directory, each release number has a directory. For example, for Fedora Core 4, there is a 4/ directory.

Annoucements about Fedora updates are sent to fedora-announce-list.

Proposed Fedora Core Updates

Proposed Fedora Updates may be placed in a directory for public testing. After they have been tested more throughly by the community, they will be releases as official Fedora Updates. Proposed updates can be downloaded from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/

Fedora Core Development Packages

Packages in this directory are untested and still under development. This is where updates for test releases will be found. Development packages can be downloaded from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/