On 07/27/2009 04:21 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
When our releases are at most six months apart, how much effort are
we
willing to divert from the next release to make this happen? It's not
going to happen for free.
The counter-balance is when each release is substantially broken, then
Fedora just gets to be known as undependable. Granted, I haven't seen
installer breakage in a Fedora like 11 (e.g. very basic partitioning
problems) since maybe 3 (my recollection is fuzzy on that)
The mirror infrastructure problem can probably be ameliorated if you
have an Internet connection on install, which a large segment of users
do. Some creative use of fetching a new kernel, kexec'ing to it,
downloading a new anaconda (and maybe RPM?), and I think the vast
majority of install problems get fixed. That's a fairly small set of
packages to maintain for large user benefit. Obviously not free, but
perhaps of high value.
I've asked on the kexec list if there's a way yet to persist a ramdisk
across kernels but didn't get a response. I'm pretty ignorant of how
kexec handles resources, but things like NFS can supposedly persist, so
ramdisks ought to be doable, or at least in-memory ones could be tagged
(I think).
-Bill
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