/usrmove?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Feb 8 17:54:18 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 07:59 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 12:37 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> Note that this has not actually been implemented in anaconda yet, so if
> >> you do an anaconda upgrade at this time, it will explode horribly. The
> >> bug requesting this support be added to anaconda is
> >> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787893 .
> > 
> > It's totally unacceptable that this "feature" has been merged in this 
> > incomplete state. Working upgrades should have been a prerequisite for 
> > merging it! Anaconda upgrades are even part of our release criteria! This 
> > affects both the DVD upgrades and preupgrade, which are the 2 upgrade 
> > methods Fedora claims to support.

>   There seems to have been a recent pattern (last year or so) of pushing
> premature pet projects rapidly without broader fedora engagement.

/usr move went through the entire feature process, which is exactly how
features are supposed to get 'broader fedora engagement'. If you're
interested in (or concerned about) new features, the feature process
provides an awful lot of opportunities for you to raise those concerns.
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