Re: [Test-Announce] Preupgrade Test Day - Thursday 2010-04-29

[Kevin Kofler]

He Rui wrote:
>  Test cases have been designed to cover common circumstances,
> including low
>  /boot space status. 
Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase (which is actually 
the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually 
removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially known? 
Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the old 
kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove all 
except the running one right away.

        Kevin Kofler

[Test-Announce] Preupgrade Test Day - Thursday 2010-04-29

[Richard Hughes]

On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at&gt; wrote:
>  Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase
> (which is actually
>  the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually
>  removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially known? 
Because nobody has written a patch to do this yet.

>  Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the
> old
>  kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove all
>  except the running one right away. 
Sure, as long as you're currently running the latest kernel then I
guess this makes sense. Patches very welcome.

Richard.

[Test-Announce] Preupgrade Test Day - Thursday 2010-04-29

[Liang Suilong]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at&gt;
> wrote:
>  > Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase (which is actually
>  > the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually
>  > removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially
>  known?
>
>  Because nobody has written a patch to do this yet.
>
>  > Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the old
>  > kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove all
>  > except the running one right away.
>
>  Sure, as long as you're currently running the latest kernel then I
>  guess this makes sense. Patches very welcome.
>
>  Richard.
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[Test-Announce] Preupgrade Test Day - Thursday 2010-04-29

[Liang Suilong]

Sorry， I sent a blank mail to list.

When user starts to use preupgrade, it downloads installer files into /boot.
Then reboot the computer and begin the upgrade process.

The method will cause a problem, if /boot does not have enough spaces,
preupgrade can not finish the upgrade.

Preupgrade is a tool to download netinstall files to local disk and
configure the grub and calculate how many packages your system should be
upgraded. So why not put the installer file to / or another bigger
directory. I think that preupgrade can create a directory in root partition
and put installer into it. The installer should run after reconfigure the
grub.conf or grub.cfg for grub 2. I believe that that is better than files
locating in /boot for the reason that root filesystem usually has more
spaces.

Liang Suilong

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Liang Suilong <liangsuilong(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:
>
> > On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at&gt; wrote:
> > > Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase (which is
> > actually
> > > the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually
> > > removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially
> > known?
> >
> > Because nobody has written a patch to do this yet.
> >
> > > Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the old
> > > kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove
> > all
> > > except the running one right away.
> >
> > Sure, as long as you're currently running the latest kernel then I
> > guess this makes sense. Patches very welcome.
> >
> > Richard.
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