On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 07:30 +1000, Rob K wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Corey Richardson <co...@octayn.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:42:30 -0400 > > Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Basically the same kind of failure as the last several times I did > >> updates. This time f16->f17. Used preupgrade. > >> > > > > I've heard nothing but bad things about preupgrade from lots of people, > > and I've heard the developers either never hear about it, ignore it, or > > don't care. I tried a preupgrade and it half-succeeded, I had to fix > > the initramfs and a few other things afterwards though. IMO, it isn't > > worth the pain. > > My anecdata beats your anecdata. Preupgrade works fine for me, and has > done for several releases now. Considering it's just anaconda with a > reboot in the middle, that's not too surprising.
Well...it has to write a bootloader configuration, and a kickstart, and it uses the fairly uncommon kernel pair method for running anaconda. All of those can (and have) caused problems. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
