fedora 11 worst then ever release
John Poelstra
poelstra at redhat.com
Sun Jul 26 19:34:58 UTC 2009
Ralf Corsepius said the following on 07/26/2009 11:35 AM Pacific Time:
> On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>> "all of my system has a wrong openssl version"
>>>
>>> all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've
>>> seen
>>> preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main
>>> reason
>>> I don't think preupgrade is actually safe to use yet.
>>
>>
>> Preupgrade's process is to depsolve - using the same method anaconda
>> does, download the pkgs it solves out. Put them in a cachedir. Download
>> a kernel and an initrd, Setup a ks.cfg. then reboot the machine and
>> allow anaconda to do the install.
>>
>> Specific issues we've had with preupgrade are related to not being able
>> to find a mirror and/or not being able to get pkgs.
> Mine were
> * preupgrade running out of diskspace on / when trying to fill
> /var/cache/yum (my "/"'s tend to be minimized/small)
>
> * anaconda failing during reboots due not being able to process fstab
> correctly (FC11's anaconda misparses fstab and is unable able to process
> bind-mounts nor nfs-mounts).
>
> * anaconda's depsolving failed when upgrading an FC10 + FC10-updates
> system due to NEVR issues.
>
Are there bug numbers for these issues?
John
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