On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto(a)mit.edu> wrote:
I have a tendency to upgrade to a new Fedora release as soon as
it's
final, and I sometimes upgrade even sooner. ISTM that the official
upgrade process is almost always broken, often for known reasons.
Should one of the criteria for releasing Fedora N+1 be that a
fully-updated Fedora N must be able to successfully complete 'fedup'
or whatever the current preferred upgrade program is?
(FWIW, the current bug is particularly nasty -- fedup 0.7.0 apparently
can't actually update anything, and the sequence:
- Install fedup 0.7.0
- Try it and watch it fail or hang
- Update to fedup 0.8.0 from updates-testing
- Run fedup
ends up downloading all rpms *twice* a sucking up a correspondingly
immense amount of disk space.
To make the proposal more clear:
Currently, in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_upgrade_fedup_cli_previous_des...,
the instructions say "Install fedup. It is usually a good idea to
install the very latest version from updates-testing: su -c 'yum
--enablerepo=updates-testing install fedup'".
I propose changing that to something like "Install fedup. The version
of fedup used must be the most recent stable release.)
--Andy