Another bug that would have been caught if packages went through a boot/acceptance test

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 10:30:56 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> If you've been following updates to F14 alpha/beta, you'll undoubtedly
> have been hit by:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638091
>
> which makes everything segfault and is unrecoverable without a live CD
> and a lot of manual intervention.
>
> A simple "does it boot" test in fact wouldn't have caught this, but a
> "does it boot, then run prelink" (completely automatic as part of the
> Koji build or AutoQA acceptance) would have.

Absolutely.  I look forward to seeing your contributions to AutoQA to
help with this issue!

josh


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