New criterion for updates.img using

[Petr Schindler]

> From: "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com>
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:42:30 AM
> Subject: Re: New criterion for updates.img using
> 
> On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:28 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote:
> > I propose new beta criterion:
> > 
> > "The installer must be able to use updates.img obtained by any
> > supported way"
> > 
> > I think, that this should be at criteria too. There are test cases
> > which uses this feature - [1], [2]
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_installation_source
> > [2]
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_local_media
> 
> Similar to previous:
> 
> "The installer must be able to retrieve and use an
> [[Anaconda/Updates|
> installer update image]] by any supported method"
> 
> Though this may be too broad, and we may have the problem we had with
> kickstarts in F16, where some really obscure retrieval method doesn't
> work and we don't really want to block the release for that. We might
> want to be more specific and only support more common updates.img
> deployment channels.

Thank you for suggestions on this. I would require only methods for which we have test case [1] [2] and from alpha [3]. So I propose beta criterion:

"The installer must be able to use an [[Anaconda/Updates|installer update image]] retrieved from removable media, remote installation source and HTTP url"

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_installation_source
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_local_media
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_URL