Getting a working Rawhide installation

[Amit Saha]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:40 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:17 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 14:34 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
>> >> >> Hi all,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I want to setup a functional Rawhide installation for some testing.
>> >> >> What is the recommended approach to get one? The nightly builds seem
>> >> >> to be failing.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I am fine with a fresh install or an upgrade, whichever works.
>> >> >
>> >> > The standard method is to install F17 and yum distro-sync to Rawhide.
>> >> > You'll want to make sure you get selinux-policy 3.11.1, earlier builds
>> >> > apparently break boot. I don't know if there are any other showstoppers
>> >> > at present. Note, we branch for F18 and start building Alpha TCs quite
>> >> > soon.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks. I will give it a shot.  And see what happens.
>> >
>> > For the record, instructions at
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Yum_update_from_previous_release (though actually that says it's not a good method...I disagree, and the text seems pretty old). I'd say it boils down to:
>> >
>> > yum install fedora-release-rawhide
>> > (disable F17 repos in the graphical tool, enable Rawhide repo)
>> > yum distro-sync
>> >
>> > and watch the pretty, pretty fireworks...
>>
>> Tried this last night (on an un-updated F17 install)
>>
>> # yum install fedora-release-rawhide
>> # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide update
>>
>> It was quite unusable, always ran into rescue mode while boot. Could
>> be the SElinux thing you mentioned earlier.
>
> That sounds pretty likely.
>
>> I am trying again now.
>> Here is what I plan to do:
>>
>> # yum install fedora-release-rawhide
>> # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide distro-sync
>>
>> Is that right?
>
> More or less - I'd say 'yum --releasever=rawhide distro-sync', but
> there's really not a huge degree of practical difference between the
> three. The difference between 'update' and 'distro-sync' is that
> 'distro-sync' will *downgrade* a package if the version in the target
> repo is lower than what you currently have installed - so if Rawhide is
> behind F17, you'll get the Rawhide package, you won't keep the F17 one.
> This is _usually_ what you'd want.
>
> If your attempt yesterday failed then the slightly different command
> won't likely fix it, but if it was the selinux issue you were hitting,
> you might find you get the newer selinux-policy package today and things
> work better. If not, grab it from Koji. It's easy enough to tell if
> you're hitting the selinux issue: just boot with enforcing=0. If that
> works, then you know what the problem was =)

Okay. Here is what I have done now, I updated to the selinux-policy
3.11 from rawhide repository after installing fedora-rawhide-release.
Will do the distrosync now and see.

>
> For the record, I just substantially reworked/updated the instructions
> on the Rawhide page, as they were somewhat antiquated and confused.

Great. Thanks. I shall let the list know if I am successful/or not.

Thanks,
Amit

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