Bug 183572
Summary: | Installer does not give you chance to skip packages that could not be installed | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 5 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-03-03 01:29:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Mark Allyn
2006-03-02 01:16:53 UTC
*** Bug 183573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Skipping packages is highly likely to lead to a broken system in cases where the package is a requirement of other packages or especially if it's a base package. The user already can change to another CD/DVD before hitting 'retry', to try
another (hopefully uncorrupted) media.
However, since problems with corrupted media (expecially when created on
Linux) and truncated installs are a _frequent_ event (from my experience), I
think extra attention could be given to problems like this so that the
installer deals with problems as gracefully as possible.
> Skipping packages is highly likely to lead to a broken system
Agreed, but how much more broken is a system where the installer has
already formatted partitions, installed some packages, and stopped abruptly ?
Certainly, if the package is not a requirement to others, then there is no
problem skipping it and installing it later.
A possible improvement might be to add an extra step after the user has
selected packages, and before the formatting phase starts:
- Verify that selected packages can be read from the media(s) (y/n)?
I bet more users would want to verify this step rather than do the whole media
verification step at the beginning. Plus, it should be faster since less
packages have to be verified.
Not a perfect solution, but an improvement IMO.
Cheers.
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