On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <l...@mit.edu> wrote: > I have a tendency to upgrade to a new Fedora release as soon as it's > final, and I sometimes upgrade even sooner. ISTM that the official > upgrade process is almost always broken, often for known reasons. > Should one of the criteria for releasing Fedora N+1 be that a > fully-updated Fedora N must be able to successfully complete 'fedup' > or whatever the current preferred upgrade program is? > > (FWIW, the current bug is particularly nasty -- fedup 0.7.0 apparently > can't actually update anything, and the sequence: > > - Install fedup 0.7.0 > - Try it and watch it fail or hang > - Update to fedup 0.8.0 from updates-testing > - Run fedup > > ends up downloading all rpms *twice* a sucking up a correspondingly > immense amount of disk space.
To make the proposal more clear: Currently, in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_upgrade_fedup_cli_previous_desktop_encrypted, the instructions say "Install fedup. It is usually a good idea to install the very latest version from updates-testing: su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install fedup'". I propose changing that to something like "Install fedup. The version of fedup used must be the most recent stable release.) --Andy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
