[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 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> 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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