On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 12:07:25PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 17:39:35 -0700,
>   "Brian C. Lane" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2) The fact that install media is 'frozen', as is anaconda, after an
> > extensive testing cycle and that packages involved have moved forward,
> > but are now only tested against running systems, not recreating boot
> > media.
> > 
> > Because of #2 using the updates and testing-updates repositories can
> > result in building systems that won't boot.
> > 
> > I think that as a a baseline, things ought to work correctly if only the
> > base repo is used in the creation. If other packages need to be added
> > (and that is kinda the point, isn't it?) then making a local repo with
> > just those hand-selected packages makes sense to me.
> 
> Given the manpower we have that may be the practical approach. I would suggest
> that the target is that being able to do a live image respin with the
> updates repository enabled should work. If the project decides that this
> must work, we could add retesting one or more live images to the critical
> path update tests. I don't think this is a good idea now, but maybe someday.

Well, the updates repo is the problem. In the recent cases the problem
was that udev and NetworkManager had changed things post-release which
broke anaconda. If things are going to work with updates then anaconda
is going to need to be updated instead of frozen at release time.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)

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