Bug #372011 (or: how we could help with anaconda beta tests)

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Nov 23 20:01:40 UTC 2007


On Friday 23 November 2007, Andre Costa wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>bug #372011 [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011] is
>hosting a heated debate about anaconda & F8, how this dreadful bug has
>been hurting F8 reputation and so on (I'm one of the poor souls that
>have been affected by it -- and have been saved by patched .img
>provided by Jeremy Katz
>[http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/updates-f8-yumloop.img]).
>
>One thing that's clear is that anaconda QA missed some key spots, and
>also that we (users) didn't help much on the process, allowing the bugs
>to remain hidden until the version was officially released, which led to
>a lot of stress among users and developers.
>
>I would really like to participate more during the beta stage of new
>Fedora versions. However, as I stated on Comment #97
>[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011#c97] I can't really
>install beta versions on my system at home, I use it daily, including
>for work.
>
>But, AFAICS the other aspects of the installation process are pretty
>much stable and independent from the current installation (language
>selection, keyboard selection etc.), and the critical step for an
>upgrade is dependency solving / package selection.
>
>So, what if the developers provided early access to this particular
>part of anaconda only? I mean, in read-only mode, it would just gather
>information about the packages currently installed and confirm if it
>would be able to handle an upgrade on a "real" installation scenario?
>It could for instance stop right after depsolve and show some
>statistics.
>
>Believe me, if I was sure that I could test anaconda in read-only mode I
>would gladly do it, at any step before the official release. Chances
>are that test coverage would improve considerably, and no installation
>would be touched during this process.
>
>Does this make any sense to anyone? Would this help? Is it already
>possible somehow?
>
I dunno, but it really does sound like a great idea.

>Regards,
>
>Andre



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