On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:51:10 -0600 Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:41:31 -0600, > Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Therefore, I would like to suggest that Fedora put this current > >installer (F18) in abeyance and re-roll the release using the old > >installer while the new one is fixed for F19 (after responding to the > >feedback generated thus far). I am not sure how an update to the > >installer in F18 will help since an install is needed for an update and > >once updated, there is no need for the installer. The main benefit to > >Fedora for such an approach will be that all the other features > >introduced in F18 can be tried and evaluated. > > The old installer won't work in F18. Anaconda is tightly coupled to several > other packages which changed for f18. To accomodate this the old anaconda > would have needed a number of changes to get it to work with f18. That is > a significant factor in why we didn't fall back to using the old anaconda > for f18. Given the limited anaconda developer resources are needed to work > on improving the new installer, it is very unlikely anyone will update > the installer used for f17 to get it to work for f18. I see. > > You should be able to use a yum update to go from f17 to f18 without too > much trouble. > > There could easily be fedup improvements which would get brought back to > f17. You should be sure the problems you were having with it are logged > in bugzilla. I had some problems with this too: I do have a working system but that which can not do a bit of stuff. See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-January/429357.html See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-January/429357.html Both of which generated into discussion not particularly relevant to solving my problems. Trouble with using fedup and fedora-upgrade, is, as I said, there is no guaranteed fall-back option of installing, if these fail. Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
