On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:40 +1000, Amit Saha wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:17 +1000, Amit Saha wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 14:34 +1000, Amit Saha wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> >> >> I want to setup a functional Rawhide installation for some testing. >> >> >> What is the recommended approach to get one? The nightly builds seem >> >> >> to be failing. >> >> >> >> >> >> I am fine with a fresh install or an upgrade, whichever works. >> >> > >> >> > The standard method is to install F17 and yum distro-sync to Rawhide. >> >> > You'll want to make sure you get selinux-policy 3.11.1, earlier builds >> >> > apparently break boot. I don't know if there are any other showstoppers >> >> > at present. Note, we branch for F18 and start building Alpha TCs quite >> >> > soon. >> >> >> >> Thanks. I will give it a shot. And see what happens. >> > >> > For the record, instructions at >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Yum_update_from_previous_release (though actually that says it's not a good method...I disagree, and the text seems pretty old). I'd say it boils down to: >> > >> > yum install fedora-release-rawhide >> > (disable F17 repos in the graphical tool, enable Rawhide repo) >> > yum distro-sync >> > >> > and watch the pretty, pretty fireworks... >> >> Tried this last night (on an un-updated F17 install) >> >> # yum install fedora-release-rawhide >> # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide update >> >> It was quite unusable, always ran into rescue mode while boot. Could >> be the SElinux thing you mentioned earlier. > > That sounds pretty likely. > >> I am trying again now. >> Here is what I plan to do: >> >> # yum install fedora-release-rawhide >> # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide distro-sync >> >> Is that right? > > More or less - I'd say 'yum --releasever=rawhide distro-sync', but > there's really not a huge degree of practical difference between the > three. The difference between 'update' and 'distro-sync' is that > 'distro-sync' will *downgrade* a package if the version in the target > repo is lower than what you currently have installed - so if Rawhide is > behind F17, you'll get the Rawhide package, you won't keep the F17 one. > This is _usually_ what you'd want. > > If your attempt yesterday failed then the slightly different command > won't likely fix it, but if it was the selinux issue you were hitting, > you might find you get the newer selinux-policy package today and things > work better. If not, grab it from Koji. It's easy enough to tell if > you're hitting the selinux issue: just boot with enforcing=0. If that > works, then you know what the problem was =) Okay. Here is what I have done now, I updated to the selinux-policy 3.11 from rawhide repository after installing fedora-rawhide-release. Will do the distrosync now and see. > > For the record, I just substantially reworked/updated the instructions > on the Rawhide page, as they were somewhat antiquated and confused. Great. Thanks. I shall let the list know if I am successful/or not. Thanks, Amit > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- http://echorand.me -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
