On 03/22/2010 10:36 AM, test-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:48:19 -0400 > From: James Laska<jlaska@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Did F13 Alpha ship with a buggy/broken Anaconda? > To: For testers of Fedora development releases > <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID:<1269262099.3122.18.camel@localhost> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 15:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> > On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 13:30 -0400, Robert C. Lightfoot wrote: >> >>> > > Dear Fellow Test Team: >>> > > >>> > > Recently while trying to test the upgrade of F12-Gold to F13-Alpha I >>> > > encountered this bug.https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568334 >>> > > and if I read the history correct this bug of anaconda 13.31 wasn't >>> > > fixed until 13.35 but 13.32 is what ships with F13 Alpha. I'm new to >>> > > all this but why ship a broken installer with an Alpha candidate >>> > > shouldn't that have been a release blocker bug? Or do I not understand >>> > > how things work? >>> >> > >> > It's not a blocker. We don't block on upgrade functionality until the >> > Beta. >> > For a more detailed list of issues that are considered Beta blockers, > check out > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Beta_Release_Criteria#Beta_Release_Requirements > > Also, if you need a fix for that issue before F13 Beta is released, > there is an updates.img [1] available to work around [2] the problem. > > Thanks, > James > > [1]http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/568334.img > [2] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates#Updates_from_the_Network > > I downloaded the 568334.img file as updates.img and placed it into /images/updates.img. When attempting an install via http it ended with bug 568334. When attempting an install via linux updates=... command it ended with bug568334. If this updates.img file is meant to be a work around for bug 568334 and allow F13-Alpha to install on VirtualBox-OSE 3.1.4 then it is not complete or I have misused it. Still learning -- Bob Lightfoot -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
