Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>> "all of my system has a wrong openssl version"
>>
>> all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've
>> seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main
>> reason
>> I don't think preupgrade is actually safe to use yet.
>
> Preupgrade's process is to depsolve - using the same method anaconda
> does, download the pkgs it solves out. Put them in a cachedir. Download
> a kernel and an initrd, Setup a ks.cfg. then reboot the machine and
> allow anaconda to do the install.
>
> Specific issues we've had with preupgrade are related to not being able
> to find a mirror and/or not being able to get pkgs.
Mine were
* preupgrade running out of diskspace on / when trying to fill
/var/cache/yum (my "/"'s tend to be minimized/small)
You're not blaming Preupgrade for the partition being too small, are you? If
you want a small root partition you should put /var/cache/yum on another
partition.
Do you mean Preupgrade didn't handle the lack of disk space well?
* anaconda failing during reboots due not being able to process
fstab
correctly (FC11's anaconda misparses fstab and is unable able to process
bind-mounts nor nfs-mounts).
* anaconda's depsolving failed when upgrading an FC10 + FC10-updates
system due to NEVR issues.
Those would be Anaconda issues, not Preupgrade issues – which makes them all
the more serious.
Björn Persson