/ must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

[Jonathan Kamens]

On 10/18/2011 11:17 AM, Chris Lumens wrote:
> There's nothing arbitrary about this. We got no end of bugs from 
> people trying to do an install over top of an existing install, 
> perhaps one that was successful, and perhaps one that was only halfway 
> done. We need to be able to start from a known state, and a 
> preexisting / is not it. - Chris 
I don't think the fact that there are some people who don't know what 
they're doing justifies removing important functionality that is both 
used and required by people who /do/ know what they're doing.

If the installer is sufficiently aggressive about warning clueless users 
to let it reformat / unless they really, really know what they're doing, 
then people who choose still not to reformat / and end up with a broken 
system have only themselves to blame, and their bugs can justifiably and 
quickly be closed NOTABUG.

I really don't buy the argument that this is necessary to make anaconda 
robust. As long as anaconda can detect the right options to put in 
/etc/fstab for the preformatted / partition, anything else it needs to 
be able to do to install on top of a preexisting /, it should be able to 
do. If there are specific issues that it needs to handle that it doesn't 
handle properly, then fix those issues.

This strikes me as very much throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

   jik

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