HOWTO switch to the QA version of Foresight 2.x

This HOWTO will walk you through the steps to switch from the stable version of Foresight 2.x to the QA branch.

Step 1: Update Conary configuration files

Run the command

sudo sed -i 's/fl:2/fl:2-qa/g' /etc/conary/config.d/foresight

Step 2: Check if installLabelPath has been changed properly

conary config |grep installLabelPath

Make sure it says foresight.rpath.org@fl:2-qa and foresight.rpath.org@fl:2-qa-kernel

Step 3a: Switch to the QA version from a full DVD install

The GNOME DVD by default installs group-gnome-dist=@fl:2 to your system.

You need to 'sync' the group to the fl:2-qa branch.

sudo conary sync group-gnome-dist=@fl:2-qa

'Conary sync' will keep any packages you've installed by yourself.

Step 3b: Switch to the QA version from a GNOME lite CD install

The GNOME lite CD installs group-gnome-lite-dist to your system.

You need to 'migrate' to group-gnome-dist=@fl:2-qa. This will uninstall any and all applications that are not installed by default in the new group, so you might want to create a list of the applications that you need to re-install after the migrate.

sudo conary migrate group-gnome-dist=@fl:2-qa

Now it's done.