rawhide report: 20061219 changes

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:58:35 -0500,
  Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 11:53, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > I think that this is an awesome feature that I would like to try out.
> > So how would I incorporate this new anaconda release in rawhide and try
> > to use it to install FC6 for example?
> 
> Will not work very well.  Anaconda is very closely tied to the kernel/userland 
> for the tree its composing, taking rawhides and dumping it on FC6 will not 
> work so well.

Even within FC6 anaconda isn't properly updated. The parted updates and
possibly mkinitrd updates broke anaconda. The version in testing also didn't
work properly with the latest parted and mkinitrd. In order to do a respin
with updates I ended up downgrading parted, pyparted and mkinitrd.
It would be nice if anaconda were kept in better sync with its dependencies.
Presumably this will be better in FC7 as respins will be more normal there
than they are now.