reversible dual-boot test station
by Chris Murphy
Hi,
I mentioned this in a QA meeting, and have given it enough testing that I think it's broadly usable. If desired it can be copied out of my user account and put up somewhere where QA folks will see it and can modify it as issues or improvements are discovered.
What is it? The idea is to produce a system that can confidently be used for baremetal testing, without risking the primary operating system. While VM's are a great way to test, it's also a really idealized environment that tends to not expose an assortment of bugs that affect particular hardware. But then quite a lot of folks reasonably don't want to upgrade their daily use hardware early on, because they don't want to always have to debug things, or have to figure out how to undo the upgrade if it really goes badly.
Therefore, I present a dual-boot setup offering:
* no re-partitioning;
* no installation step, instead system upgrade is used;
* reversibility, or undoability, i.e. with just a few steps you can delete the "test OS".
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy/Draft/dualboot_teststation
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Chris Murphy
2 months
Multimedia group still referencing gimp-heif-plugin
by Ian Laurie
I notice that:
sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia
produces the error:
No match for group package "gimp-heif-plugin"
Seems like "gimp-heif-plugin" no longer exists in the repos. Is this a
bug in the spec file for the Multimedia group?
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Ian Laurie
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TZ: Australia/Sydney
4 months, 1 week
Error in POSTIN scriptlet for dbus-common rpm
by George R Goffe
Hi,
I keep seeing this "bug" across multiple fedora 40 Fedora netinst iso images. Am I doing something wrong?
"current" image is Fedora-Workstation-Live-osb-Rawhide-20231212.n.0.x86_64.iso
Best regards,
George
4 months, 1 week
Re: test Digest, Vol 238, Issue 1
by Rick Marshall
Hi All
Since the F39 update pppd is broken (perhaps not in all cases but the
config needs to be changed and it's not obvious).
Now the problem is that a broken pppd cuts us off from the machine.
Right now I have lost contact with a machine 1200 miles away and it is
going to be expensive to visit and fix.
However no point until there is a good version of pppd
I raise this because ppp should be a critical component given the cost
of failure.
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4 months, 2 weeks
2023-12-11 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting
# Date: 2023-12-11
# Time: 16:00 UTC
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto)
# Location: https://matrix.to/#/#meeting:fedoraproject.org
Greetings testers! It's time for the last QA meeting of the year!
We're going to try moving back to Fedora Chat (Matrix) for this
meeting, as the bot should be working there now. Remember, the IRC
bridge is out of commission, so you'll really have to be on Matrix to
join the meeting. You can log in with your Fedora account.
If anyone has any other items for the agenda, please reply to this
email and suggest them! Thanks.
== Proposed Agenda Topics ==
1. Previous meeting follow-up
2. Fedora 40 check-in
3. Communications overhaul: Discourse and Matrix?
4. Test Day / community event status
5. Open floor
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Adam Williamson (he/him/his)
Fedora QA
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4 months, 2 weeks
