On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote: >> >> 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? > > Well, to some extend, I am blaming it, because > a) filling '/' may easily kill a system and may easily cause further damage > (processes running in parallel to preupgrade might be malfunctioning due > lack of diskspace). > > b) I expect an installer to be able to check whether sufficient space is > available in advance, rsp. not to leave a system in an unusable state in > case of something going wrong. > > In BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503183 > I questioned whether using /var/cache/yum is a good choice for preupgrade's > package cache. Though I meanwhile know that this BZ is was a side-effect of > the nfs-parser bugs in anaconda, I still think using /root or /tmp would be > better choices. No, some people (me included) use tmpfs for /tmp , so this would result into reboot, no packages found (if it did not hit a space problem either). /root is not supposed to be used by random apps. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
