Release criterion proposal: "Package sets" (Alpha and Beta)

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 15:39 -0700, Mike Ruckman wrote:

> I'd be for blocking on a broken netinst (like your example), but if 
> the repos are the same used for image creation this shouldn't really 
> be an issue, right? (Yeah, I know I used the "S" word :p ) AIUI 
> things would break in other places if this particular issue was to 
> come up. Is my understanding correct?
> 

Not entirely, no, because the netinst can do much more than any 
offline install image, let alone the release-blocking ones. The 
release-blocking images cover the environment groups for Workstation, 
Server, Cloud, and the KDE desktop, pretty much. netinst can install 
any environment group listed in comps, with any of its optional 
package groups.

In practice I suspect we'd only be likely to block on the netinst not 
being able to install one of the env groups that corresponds to a 
release blocking image, and in practice that would be unlikely to 
happen without breaking that image, yeah (though there's probably some 
corner case or other, e.g. where there's a bug in a package that's 
part of the Workstation env group but is stripped from the live image 
for space reasons, or whatever).
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