fedora 11 worst then ever release

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 07/26/2009 09:28 PM, Björn Persson wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 07/26/2009 02:37 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> "all of my system has a wrong openssl version"
>>>>
>>>> all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've
>>>> seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main
>>>> reason
>>>> I don't think preupgrade is actually safe to use yet.
>>>
>>> Preupgrade's process is to depsolve - using the same method anaconda
>>> does, download the pkgs it solves out. Put them in a cachedir. Download
>>> a kernel and an initrd, Setup a ks.cfg. then reboot the machine and
>>> allow anaconda to do the install.
>>>
>>> Specific issues we've had with preupgrade are related to not being able
>>> to find a mirror and/or not being able to get pkgs.
>>
>> Mine were
>> * preupgrade running out of diskspace on / when trying to fill
>> /var/cache/yum (my "/"'s tend to be minimized/small)
>
> You're not blaming Preupgrade for the partition being too small, are you?
Well, to some extend, I am blaming it, because
a) filling '/' may easily kill a system and may easily cause further 
damage (processes running in parallel to preupgrade might be 
malfunctioning due lack of diskspace).

b) I expect an installer to be able to check whether sufficient space is 
available in advance, rsp. not to leave a system in an unusable state in 
case of something going wrong.

In BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503183
I questioned whether using /var/cache/yum is a good choice for 
preupgrade's package cache. Though I meanwhile know that this BZ is was 
a side-effect of the nfs-parser bugs in anaconda, I still think using 
/root or /tmp would be better choices.

> If
> you want a small root partition you should put /var/cache/yum on another
> partition.
This would have worked, if anaconda had been able to process fstab.
Unfortunately, FC11's anaconda isn't able to do so.

Ralf