On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:46 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > > In the #fedora IRC channel I have seen 100 preupgrade failures for every > > one DVD upgrade failure roughly, I have nicknamed it preFAILupgrade. So > > much so I already had a draft started and was a bit shocked to read it was > > a DVD upgrade failure... so as always YMMV. > > Well, I use plain yum for a reason. ;-) I've had so many problems with > Anaconda that I prefer bypassing it entirely. That said, that method is only > half-supported, so there too, YMMV. >From a practical standpoint, I'd say no upgrade method is particularly supported in reality. The extent of our support is that we test that an upgrade from a completely clean install of the previous release works; that's all the guarantee you get. There's no planned testing of upgrades from any kind of non-stock install, and there's a fairly high bar on upgrade issues constituting release blockers. In practice, we don't really try that hard to produce a really reliable upgrade process. We *state* that anaconda and preupgrade-based upgrades are supported, but as a project we don't put a huge amount of effort into actually making sure they work in most cases. (This is partly, of course, because it's an extremely difficult thing to do.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
