No preupgrade for F17->F18?, [Bug 872876] WONTFIX

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Nov 8 10:13:33 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 10:01 +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> List,
> cc Chris,
> 
> I reported a bug after trying to use F17 to preupgrade to F18.
> 
> It didn't work using Anaconda (I am aware Anaconda is a WIP) but I was
> surprised at the response.
> 
> If preupgrade is being canned then presumably it needs fixing to no
> longer offer the non-working and WONTFIX option to upgrade to F18.
> 
> Also if a 'completely separate process that does not involve anaconda'
> is mooted then... could preupgrade call that, or refer to it if it's a
> manual process?

The new tool has more or less the same shape as preupgrade. It's a
two-stage process launched from the running system you want to upgrade,
just like preupgrade, but it's all new code. The second stage goes
through dracut, rather than anaconda.

Details on how to test the new system are at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_18_Upgrade_Testing , give it a
shot.

Yes, we should suppress preupgrade from offering upgrades from F17
somehow. The obvious thing would be to mark it as preupgrade-ok=False in
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt . I'll ask releng. Dunno
why I didn't think of that before, thanks for the nudge.
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