On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 13:14:13 -0500, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:06, Karsten Wade wrote: > > The live CD concept allows us to create more than one set of packages to > > test. It is true that it would exclude other packages that are worth > > testing on the same system, but it opens the possibility for > > sub-projects to issue a special live CD just for testing e.g. Fedora > > Directory Server or the latest KDE packages. > > Live CD/DVDs would be invaluable in getting more testing of A) the liveCD > creation tools, and B) the packages themselves. However it does not help to > test anaconda and installation / upgrades. Its the installation/upgrades > that had the most 'whoops' bugs in them and are the cause of most slips. We > need more testing there, not less. Telling people how to do their own respins might encourage more testing. Once I found a script to do it, I found that respins aren't all that hard to do. This allows you to test fixes since the last release without doing a lot of work. Personally, I am not likely to do much update testing, but I do keep spare partitions around that makes testing installs relatively safe and painless. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list