I'm doing a preupgrade from F12 to F13. yesterday I stopped preupgrade and started it again today. For my surprise preupgrade restarted downloading the installation images, which, with my slow connection, makes me loose more then 1/2 an hour only downloading the images.
The question is, why does it download the installation images each time I start preupgrade again?
-- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador
I was wrong, it doesn't make me loose 1/2 an hour. More likely and hour and a half, and counting.
Any thoughts?
El día 1 de julio de 2010 07:21, Martín Marqués martin.marques@gmail.com escribió:
I'm doing a preupgrade from F12 to F13. yesterday I stopped preupgrade and started it again today. For my surprise preupgrade restarted downloading the installation images, which, with my slow connection, makes me loose more then 1/2 an hour only downloading the images.
The question is, why does it download the installation images each time I start preupgrade again?
-- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador
2010/7/1 Martín Marqués martin.marques@gmail.com:
I was wrong, it doesn't make me loose 1/2 an hour. More likely and hour and a half, and counting.
You can set it up before you go to bed and continue the next day. Or isn't that an option ?
On 01/07/10 11:21, Martín Marqués wrote:
I'm doing a preupgrade from F12 to F13. yesterday I stopped preupgrade and started it again today. For my surprise preupgrade restarted downloading the installation images, which, with my slow connection, makes me loose more then 1/2 an hour only downloading the images.
With a slow connection, Preupgrade may not be right for you. Can you not get a magazine with a DVD/purchase a dvd from an online seller? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/LocalVendors
or being a bit trickier (to some) use yum update: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
The question is, why does it download the installation images each time I start preupgrade again?
Check bugzilla.redhat.org for bugs? Maybe file an rfe?
2010/7/1 Frank Murphy frankly3d@gmail.com:
On 01/07/10 11:21, Martín Marqués wrote:
I'm doing a preupgrade from F12 to F13. yesterday I stopped preupgrade and started it again today. For my surprise preupgrade restarted downloading the installation images, which, with my slow connection, makes me loose more then 1/2 an hour only downloading the images.
With a slow connection, Preupgrade may not be right for you.
Why not? Or better, why shouldn't it.
All I'm asking is for preupgrade not to download something that has already been downloaded. Maybe a checksum or something of the files.
Can you not get a magazine with a DVD/purchase a dvd from an online seller? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/LocalVendors
Hard to find here in Argentina. It's an Ubuntu country.
or being a bit trickier (to some) use yum update: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
Tried it in the past and found out that preupgrade was much better.
The question is, why does it download the installation images each time I start preupgrade again?
Check bugzilla.redhat.org for bugs? Maybe file an rfe?
I think I'll do that.
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 21:46 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
2010/7/1 Frank Murphy frankly3d@gmail.com:
On 01/07/10 11:21, Martín Marqués wrote:
I'm doing a preupgrade from F12 to F13. yesterday I stopped preupgrade and started it again today. For my surprise preupgrade restarted downloading the installation images, which, with my slow connection, makes me loose more then 1/2 an hour only downloading the images.
With a slow connection, Preupgrade may not be right for you.
Why not? Or better, why shouldn't it.
All I'm asking is for preupgrade not to download something that has already been downloaded. Maybe a checksum or something of the files.
Can you not get a magazine with a DVD/purchase a dvd from an online seller? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/LocalVendors
Hard to find here in Argentina. It's an Ubuntu country.
or being a bit trickier (to some) use yum update: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
Tried it in the past and found out that preupgrade was much better.
The question is, why does it download the installation images each time I start preupgrade again?
Check bugzilla.redhat.org for bugs? Maybe file an rfe?
I think I'll do that.
-- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador
Hello Martín compatriota :-)
I think you can download the installation image first and then, when you restart your computer to make the preupgrade, it asks you to download the image or to select it in your hd. But I'm not sure. Maybe someone else can confirm this.
Regards and good luck, Germán.
Martín Marqués wrote:
I'm doing a preupgrade from F12 to F13. yesterday I stopped preupgrade and started it again today. For my surprise preupgrade restarted downloading the installation images, which, with my slow connection, makes me loose more then 1/2 an hour only downloading the images.
The question is, why does it download the installation images each time I start preupgrade again?
I suppose it was easier to do it that way and go for reliable rather than efficient. After all, preupgrade is something you run at most every release, and stopping it in the middle is not the usual use case, so "better safe than sorry," it starts over.
I guess that putting time into recovery code was not efficient use of developer time, and as long as it produces a proper upgrade when interrupted, the unlikely restart case wasn't handled. As opposed to handled badly, which you really don't want.
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