AutoQA upgrade path failure makes no sense to me

[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 21:59 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> It seems to be saying after much head-scratching and decoding that an
>> update to dist-f14 (ie. the original ancient released version without
>> updates) would fail, but how could anyone do that?
> 
> By using an F14 DVD, of course.

… which is exactly why I've been saying all the time that the DVD must get 
fixed to support enabling the updates repository also for upgrades, not just 
for new installs. In fact, I'd even go as far as saying it should REQUIRE 
it, not just support it. Upgrading without updates enabled is just broken by 
design, it will always lead to breakage. This issue is making DVD upgrades 
close to useless. When support for using the updates repository during 
installations got added, I thought this eons-old bug would finally be fixed, 
but no, the support got added only for fresh installs and not upgrades. :-( 
In its current state, IMHO we'd be better off not supporting DVD upgrades at 
all. (We could hide the feature behind a magic "upgrade" boot parameter like 
RHEL does.) But the best solution would be to fix the bug, not to hide it.

        Kevin Kofler