On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 10:01 +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote: >> List, >> cc Chris, >> >> I reported a bug after trying to use F17 to preupgrade to F18. >> >> It didn't work using Anaconda (I am aware Anaconda is a WIP) but I was >> surprised at the response. >> >> If preupgrade is being canned then presumably it needs fixing to no >> longer offer the non-working and WONTFIX option to upgrade to F18. >> >> Also if a 'completely separate process that does not involve anaconda' >> is mooted then... could preupgrade call that, or refer to it if it's a >> manual process? > > The new tool has more or less the same shape as preupgrade. It's a > two-stage process launched from the running system you want to upgrade, > just like preupgrade, but it's all new code. The second stage goes > through dracut, rather than anaconda. > > Details on how to test the new system are at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_18_Upgrade_Testing , give it a > shot. > > Yes, we should suppress preupgrade from offering upgrades from F17 > somehow. The obvious thing would be to mark it as preupgrade-ok=False in > https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt . I'll ask releng. Dunno > why I didn't think of that before, thanks for the nudge. We should make fedup obsolete preupgrade. But we should have a gui first ..... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
