unable to run tests requiring "updates=http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/updates/traceback.img" option

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 09:55:03 UTC 2012


> > 2. Ask Anaconda team to provide us with their "official" and
> > supported solution.
> > 
> > After inspecting updates.img, there is a lot of code copied from
> > (some old version of) anaconda. That doesn't seem to me as a good
> > solution, because we might get completely unrelated problems in the
> > process. I imagine anaconda guys could provide us with a much
> > better
> > solution. For example they could add "traceback" kernel option that
> > causes anaconda crash on startup. This is just a few lines of code,
> > it would be maintained, and doesn't involve any updates.img
> > downloading etc. What do you think? I'll discuss with anaconda team
> > if noone has better ideas.
> 
> I consulted this idea with Vratislav Podzimek from Anaconda team. He
> agreed this could be implemented, especially because we're not alone
> asking for it. He'll try to get this feature into anaconda very soon
> so that we can test it.

The new feature is implemented and should be part of the next anaconda release (17.9 probably). We just use 'traceback' boot option. Once a new compose with the new anaconda is ready, I'll re-write the test cases.


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