Installing Rawhide

Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at cox.net
Thu Dec 3 20:03:44 UTC 2009


On 12/03/2009 02:21 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:45 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>
>> Reading the anaconda list, I see a very large number of changes coming
>> down the road, all significant and probably as complex as the storage
>> rewrite.  I bet the anaconda developers would appreciate the widest
>> possible testing as soon as changes hit rawhide.
>>
>> If rawhide is to be frozen, can a mechanism to test anaconda, at a
>> minimum, be provided?  Testing the rest of rawhide is easy and has been
>> well documented.
>>
>> Thanks, from a cheerful anaconda tester who may now be tearful.
>
> Well, if you read the posts from Peter Jones, that's actually *not* what
> they want. They say they want to move to model where they provide images
> for testing anaconda when they're ready to.
>

Then why put updates in rawhide?  For the live isos? I know there is a 
way with updages.img files to test, but creating them is beyond me. 
Also, I guess we could use Mr. Keating's pungi method.

It is too bad that the good old days of easily testing the cool changes 
being made in anaconda are over.




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