Can RC2 be used for RC1 testing?

[Andre Robatino]

On 08/21/2009 12:17 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 21:28 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> The RC1 Install Test Results page
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC1_Install_Test_Results
>>
>> has a broken link to the now deleted RC1 images.  Although RC1 testing
>> is encouraged, the only way to actually get it now is using the
>> deltaisos from TC (which one must already have, since that was also
>> deleted earlier).  Is it okay to use RC2 for RC1 testing?  And is it
>> really necessary to delete the older images immediately when the newer
>> ones arrive?  HDD space is cheap nowadays.
> 
> Yes and yes - if something were, theoretically, broken in RC1 but fixed
> in RC2, that would be fine, because that's what we're planning to ship.
> So there's no reason to test RC1 any more if you have RC2, and results
> filed in the RC1 matrix from RC2 are fine. Do check the RC2 matrix to
> see if the same test is present on that reduced matrix, though. Thanks
> for testing!

I don't have any F12-capable machines to spare (the i686 rebuild
eliminated one), so can only test in a virtual guest.  Are the only
tests where this is acceptable the ones that say so explicitly?


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