Stephan,

I am very confused about one statement you make:
Systems should be reinstalled from scratch after the release though.

 From my experience with RHEL (and before that, RH rom RedHat when 
RedHat would distribute production binary distributions, not just 
enthusiast Fedora, as well as my experience with Debian), a minor 
release could be handled through the distribution update mechanism 
without requiring a re-install.  In the case of RHEL, a major release 
(e.g., RHEL 5 to RHEL 6) could not be handled through the upgrade/update 
mechanism, but a minor one (e.g., RHEL 5.5 to RHEL 5.6) could be.  I 
have done minor release updates many times without issue, although 
certain specifics must be redone with the release of a new kernel (e.g., 
rebuilding in the case of my personal workstation Virtualbox and the 
Nvidia drivers so that I can use Nvidia CUDA).

Regards,

Yasha Karant

On 06/23/2011 08:43 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Jun 23, 2011, at 14:48 , Jolynn Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I am interested in testing 6.1 Beta, but want to understand how hard it is to migrate to 6.1 final when it comes out.  In general I like to have a local mirror of the repo and build from that.  Is it straight forward to migrate my mirrors from the Beta repos to the final?  AKA, do I just update the URL and re-sync?
>
> we're doing this every time: cp -al 6rolling 6.1; rsync ...
>
> The cp -al is very cheap and minimizes the cost of the rsync.
>
> Systems should be reinstalled from scratch after the release though.
>
> Regards,
> 	Stephan
>