Fedora Test Day - Anaconda Storage Rewrite

[James Laska]

Greetings testers,

This week's Test Day will focus on a quiet but important feature.  If
done properly you won't know anything changed.  The Fedora installers
(anaconda) concept of managing storage is changing from the ground up.
As stated in the Feature scope [1]:

        "All of anaconda's code for creating and configuring disk
        partitions, LVM, mdraid, dmraid, multipath, iSCSI, LUKS devices,
        and filesystems is being rewritten."

Dave Lehman and Chris Lumens from the anaconda development team will be
available for discussion+guidance.  Given the raw nature of the code at
this point, rather than outlining specific detailed test cases ...
Robert Williams is pulling together a set of test areas with some
exploratory test guidance.  We don't expect all paths to be fully
functional.  We need your help collecting data on the myriad storage
environments you run anaconda in.  This data will be used to re-factor
future installer storage+partitioning testing and help identify any
development gaps.

Please join #fedora-qa this Thursday, March 5, 2009 to get some hands on
time with the revamped anaconda storage code.  Follow the action at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-05.

Thanks,
James

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AnacondaStorageRewrite


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[John Reiser]

>  Please join #fedora-qa this Thursday, March 5, 2009 to get some hands
> on
>  time with the revamped anaconda storage code. 
It seems to me that the most recent boot.iso for i386 or for x86_64
was on 2009-02-25, which was before the new code anaconda storage code
got into rawhide.  There hasn't been a boot.iso in the one week since then.
When will boot.iso be available, so that there is something to test?

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Fedora Test Day - Anaconda Storage Rewrite - rawhide uninstallable

[Orion Poplawski]

John Reiser wrote:
> > Please join #fedora-qa this Thursday, March 5, 2009 to get some
> hands on
> > time with the revamped anaconda storage code.
>  
>  It seems to me that the most recent boot.iso for i386 or for x86_64
>  was on 2009-02-25, which was before the new code anaconda storage code
>  got into rawhide.  There hasn't been a boot.iso in the one week since then.
>  When will boot.iso be available, so that there is something to test?
>   
And I can't do xen guests or PXE boot installs: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487357

And then there is  Bug 487925 -  anaconda is unable to fetch repomd.xml

Haven't been able to install rawhide for a while now...


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[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 09:16 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
>  It seems to me that the most recent boot.iso for i386 or for x86_64
>  was on 2009-02-25, which was before the new code anaconda storage code
>  got into rawhide.  There hasn't been a boot.iso in the one week since then.
>  When will boot.iso be available, so that there is something to test? 
Rawhide anaconda does not have any new storage code.  All that works is
on a branch.  We haven't had i386 images due to the i386/i586 changes
and various amounts of fallout from that.  We're working hard to get
that going at the same time the anaconda folks are working on the
storage rewrite.

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[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:36 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 09:16 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
>  > It seems to me that the most recent boot.iso for i386 or for x86_64
>  > was on 2009-02-25, which was before the new code anaconda storage code
>  > got into rawhide.  There hasn't been a boot.iso in the one week since then.
>  > When will boot.iso be available, so that there is something to test?
>  
>  Rawhide anaconda does not have any new storage code.  All that works is
>  on a branch.  We haven't had i386 images due to the i386/i586 changes
>  and various amounts of fallout from that.  We're working hard to get
>  that going at the same time the anaconda folks are working on the
>  storage rewrite. 
For the test day, some kind of special image will be provided - last I
heard, we were looking at providing a known-good Rawhide tree (possibly
an old one) together with an updates.img with the updated Anaconda code.
This will be explained on the Wiki page once it's sorted out.
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