Upgrading from Fedora 14 to 15 -> some problems

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 14:27 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> On 05/27/2011 02:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:46 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> >>> In the #fedora IRC channel I have seen 100 preupgrade failures for every
> >>> one DVD upgrade failure roughly, I have nicknamed it preFAILupgrade. So
> >>> much so I already had a draft started and was a bit shocked to read it was
> >>> a DVD upgrade failure... so as always YMMV.
> >>
> >> Well, I use plain yum for a reason. ;-) I've had so many problems with
> >> Anaconda that I prefer bypassing it entirely. That said, that method is only
> >> half-supported, so there too, YMMV.
> >
> >> From a practical standpoint, I'd say no upgrade method is particularly
> > supported in reality. The extent of our support is that we test that an
> > upgrade from a completely clean install of the previous release works;
> > that's all the guarantee you get.
> 
> Huh? The release criteria say a "fully updated default installation".

yeah, that's what I meant. install F(N-1) with all default options,
update, then run the upgrade.

the key is that we don't test any kind of real-world configuration, with
anything other than default apps, actual user data in place and so on.
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