Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 04/21/2011 09:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 15:51 +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>> On 04/21/2011 03:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> On 04/21/2011 05:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I presume, I am supposed to love the broken deps, these anaconda dumps
>>>> and this silly Win95-ish "Oh no!,..." screens of death?
>>>>
>>>> All three happened to me, when trying this Beta, yesterday ;)
>>>
>>> Filing bug reports is helpful and what one is supposed to do under such
>>> circumstances.   If you want to discuss issues, use the test list instead
>>>
>>> Rahul
>>
>> Branched report with number of missing requires goes on fedora-devel and
>> to maintainers of those packages, so they must be aware of it. The list
>> is shorter than it was before beta but there's still lot of packages. Do
>> we want to release it as it is?
>
> We consider broken deps within the set of packages included in the
> released images to block the release, but there are none of those in
> Beta. Broken deps outside the package set that gets on images aren't
> really as important.

Longer version of what has happened:

I had a more or less functional f15-Alpha test installation and ran "yum 
update". After rebooting, any attempt to log in through the GUI ended 
with a "Oh no!..." - ... should not have happened, but it's a test 
release, ... so not much reason to complain.


I decided to reinstall using netinstall.iso.

Initially (1st try), I tried a "customized package set". I was warned 
about a long series of missing deps. The install however proceeded and 
ended with anaconda raising before-mentioned error.

Then, (2nd try) I tried a "default package set" w/ *testing deactivate. 
I was warned about gnome-session missing dependency and ended up with 
"Oh no!

Then (3rd try) I tried a "default package set" w/ *testing activated.
I was warned about gnome-session missing dependencies. This time, I was 
able to login.

Ralf