On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 10:01 +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote:
>> List,
>> cc Chris,
>>
>> I reported a bug after trying to use F17 to preupgrade to F18.
>>
>> It didn't work using Anaconda (I am aware Anaconda is a WIP) but I was
>> surprised at the response.
>>
>> If preupgrade is being canned then presumably it needs fixing to no
>> longer offer the non-working and WONTFIX option to upgrade to F18.
>>
>> Also if a 'completely separate process that does not involve anaconda'
>> is mooted then... could preupgrade call that, or refer to it if it's a
>> manual process?
>
> The new tool has more or less the same shape as preupgrade. It's a
> two-stage process launched from the running system you want to upgrade,
> just like preupgrade, but it's all new code. The second stage goes
> through dracut, rather than anaconda.
>
> Details on how to test the new system are at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_18_Upgrade_Testing , give it a
> shot.
>
> Yes, we should suppress preupgrade from offering upgrades from F17
> somehow. The obvious thing would be to mark it as preupgrade-ok=False in
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt . I'll ask releng. Dunno
> why I didn't think of that before, thanks for the nudge.

We should make fedup obsolete preupgrade. But we should have a gui first .....
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