Will add a few fedora upgrade test cases, your feedback would be welcome

Bob Gustafson bobgus at rcn.com
Sat Apr 25 16:03:47 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:29 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 07:56 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> > On Apr 23, 2009, at 07:47, James Laska wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:38 +0800, Liam wrote:
> > >> Greetings,
> > >>
> > >> A few fedora upgrade test cases were created.These cases will test  
> > >> the fedora system upgrade with local CD/DVD.Get more details from:
> > >>
> > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Upgrade_system
> > >>
> > >> Any suggestion or question,please feel free to reply. Your  
> > >> feedback would be welcome.
> > >
> > > They look good, thanks Liam.  I've made a few corrections including
> > > moving into the QA: wiki namespace and utilizing the {{QA/Test_Case}}
> > > template.  I've only updated  
> > > QA:Testcase_Anaconda_Upgrade_New_Bootloader
> > > to the new template, you may wish to do the same for the others.
> > >
> > > We don't have a section related to upgrades in the Fedora 11
> > > installation test matrix, would it make sense to add your new tests to
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_Install_Results_Template?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > James
> > >
> > 
> > It might be good to add test cases for upgrading to ext4 from ext3 too.
> 
> I've not tested this explicitly yet.  Are there certain prompts for that
> the user must acknowledge/respond?  Does anaconda automatically upgrade
> non-/boot ext3 partitions to ext4 during an upgrade?
> 
> If you've recently performed an anaconda upgrade like this, I'd be
> interested in your experiences.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 

I don't have a spare system at the moment to use as a testing platform.
Perhaps late in June.

However, I have been following the anaconda discussions closely,
particularly Upgrading from F9/F10 ICH9 RAID 1 systems.

It is my understanding that since ext4 will be the default fs for F11,
existing non-boot ext3 partitions are converted to ext4 as part of the
upgrade from F9/10 to F11. Whether there is an option given to the user,
I can't say at this point - probably not.

Since the upgraded system is different from the original F9/F10 starting
point (in many ways - ext4 is just one), any repeated testing (necessary
- because the first few trials will fail..) will require a restore of
the F9/F10 system before the next test.

I think it is only fair to the testers to make this point upfront before
they test the Upgrade.




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