Fedora's Rawhide Might See Some Changes

Rawhide, the name of Fedora's development version and repository, may be restructured and improved as part of an initiative following discussions last week at the distribution's Flock conference.

The principle issue trying to be addressed is that it can be difficult getting Fedora Rawhide in the first place as their daily boot/netinstall ISOs are routinely broken and that upgrading to Rawhide from the current Fedora stable release can be problematic. When trying to upgrade to Rawhide, there's often issues with packages resolving over unmet dependencies and other factors.

In order to improve Fedora Rawhide, developers are talking about improving the nightly QA on the Rawhide packages, running more automated checks on packages, landing the rewrite of their Pungi tool, and potentially renaming Rawhide itself.

To avoid confusion over what Fedora Rawhide means and its intent, those involved in Fedora marketing are weighing a potential name change. One proposal so far is to just rename it to Fedora Untested.

Phoronix Security is fond about Rawhide.

After last week's Flock event, the Fedora Rawhide discussion has now carried over to the Fedora devel list.