FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 01:14:20 UTC 2009


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:56:42PM -0500, James Laska wrote:
> Greetings folks,
> 
> After careful review by Will Woods around recently discovered problems
> related to preupgrading to Fedora 12, I've filed ticket#270
> (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/270) for discussion at the next
> FESCO meeting.  Please take a moment to read the details in the ticket. 
> 
> The high-level summary from Will ...
> 
>         preupgrade to F12 is basically not going to work for anyone
>         without significant manual workarounds, due to insufficient disk
>         space on /boot. I think we may need to talk to hughsie and/or
>         the desktop team about removing the preupgrade integration in
>         PackageKit for F10/F11 and how to do preupgrade right for F13
>         and higher.
> 
> Most of the folks impacted by this proposal are already informed.
> However, as per the FESCO meeting guidelines [1], I'm sending this to
> fedora-devel-list for wider discussion.
> 
From the ticket and my experiences (I preupgraded a machine with a 100MB /boot
last night with no problems) this seems like an exageration.  Could you
please explain "not going to work for anyone without significant manual
workarounds"?

-Toshio
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