F12 update issues

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:06 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:52 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 08:45 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:33 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So, I think having an automated test that basically does these steps and
> > > > verifies that the current set of updates can be successfully installed
> > > > on a GOLD install would be very useful.
> > > 
> > > it wouldn't hurt, but we (QA and Richard) already know about this
> > > problem. The thing is, it's basically impossible to fix, for F12.
> > 
> > Right, I know. And I also know how to work around it now.
> > My question was about making sure that we don't run into similar issues
> > with F13.
> 
> As I said, we really need to have priority PK updates to make that
> possible. At present there's no way we could guarantee it, even with
> testing; exactly the same thing could happen again. This didn't happen
> when F12 first came out, we couldn't have caught it before release; it
> only appeared after the update set for F12 came to include packages
> which trigger the bug.

Maybe I am not making myself clear... what I am asking for, essentially,
is that we batch updates and test those batches through autoqa before 
releasing them. That of course has to happen after the release, to test
problem that only occur with the combination of release + updates.