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Rawhide
Rawhide is the name given to the current development head of Fedora. It consists of a daily snapshot of latest built version of all Fedora packages.
Rawhide Mirrors
Rawhide goes by the name of "development" on the mirrors. You can find a local mirror here:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/
Participating In Testing
Installation of Rawhide
Rawhide is meant to be installable, however, since it's automated, any particular rawhide build may not be installable due to bugs of one sort or another. More information is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
To install rawhide via anaconda
To install rawhide via anaconda, simply burn images/boot.iso for your appropriate architecture, and do a HTTP or FTP install from your friendly neighborhood mirror .
To update to rawhide via yum
To update to rawhide via yum, simply enable the 'Fedora Development' repository.
Note that test releases of Fedora are configured to update via rawhide by default.
What does it mean when something "hits rawhide"?
Rawhide is automatically generated once daily from the latest packages that are built. Packages that are built one day are generally in the next days rawhide.
(For the curious, the compose is done at Midnight US Eastern, 0400/0500 UTC.)
What is a rawhide "push"?
A rawhide push is simply the rawhide spin for that day. Occasionally, if the push is extremely broken, it may be regenerated more than once.
How can I follow the progress of rawhide?
Nightly reports are sent to fedora-test-list and fedora-devel-list, with the subject 'rawhide report: <date> changes'. Included in these reports are what packages have been added, removed, or updated (with short changelog snippets), along with a list of any broken dependencies.
http://git.fedoraproject.org/ and http://hg.fedoraproject.org/ and https://fedorahosted.org/ are good places to look at the upstream state of many Fedora projects.
Will rawhide destroy my data?
It could. Don't trust it. The traditional phrasing is that rawhide "eats babies."