FYI, just brought all step file install/setups that were removed back: http://autotest.kernel.org/changeset/4228 Also, added kickstarts for F8, F9 and F10. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 22:44 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:26:21PM -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > >> > * Removing older versions of distributions like Fedora have good reason: >> > The support cycle of them is very short (18 months), by their very >> > nature (Fedora is a technology preview, we are allways moving on). >> > So it's not reasonable to keep testing guest OS that might have bugs >> > that no one will care to fix. >> >> Disagree. Testing of older guests can trigger KVM bugs which are not >> seen during testing of newer ones. > > Ok, that's a fair concern, we need to make sure that bugs found on older > guests will get enough attention though. > >> > So in terms of maintance, we are better of keeping unattended installs >> > for the OSs we know how to do it, but keep up to date step files for the >> > guest OSs that we can't use with unattended. Like, bump the versions for >> > all the OSs that we can't do unattended version, and have up to date >> > step files for those. >> >> Why don't keep both? > > Mostly because it was my understanding that we only cared about bugs on > the latest versions of each supported OS, given that premise it made > sense to me to keep only unattended install, which depends less on OS > details (for example, the same kickstart and answer files could be used > verbatim to both old and new versions of the OSes). > > But now I see your point and Michael's, sorry, will bring back all the > step file install parameters back. > >> > We could keep them, but like I've said, we should focus our testing >> > resources using the latest versions provided by the OS vendors. >> >> Agree, but please keep the old step file method around in the reposity >> for all guests. Not only they can be useful if problems arise with >> unattended install, but the screen comparison method that is used can >> find bugs that unattended install cannot (issues that involves drawing >> the screen). > > All righty, will get them all back during the morning! > > Lucas > > _______________________________________________ > Autotest mailing list > Autotest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest > -- Lucas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
