F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

[Kam Leo]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> On 08/28/2011 09:26 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
>> You just gave an example of where preupgrade failed. It's amazing how
>> people forget shortcomings in the program.
>
> So you consider it a failure of preupgrade if the target system's /boot
> doesn't have adequate space on it?  Would you consider it a failure if
> there wasn't enough free space on the root filesystem?  As with any
> other program, there are minimum requirements for proper execution.  How
> is it the program's fault if those requirements aren't met?

Well, the job of preupgrade is to figure out what new and upgraded
packages are required and to download those packages. So, yes, a valid
design requirement would be that the program checks that there is
sufficient free disk space before downloading packages.

By the way, the requirement for a larger /boot partition came about
because files for preupgrade need to be stored there. It was a new
requirement; one that the program should/could have checked to see if
the requirement was met.