Bug 426357

Summary:	RFE Please package an updates.img for critical installer fixes
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8
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Description Bruno Wolff III 2007-12-20 14:12:10 UTC

Description of problem:
The Fedora project has been reluctant to publish installer updates once a
version has gone gold. In the past that wasn't that big of a deal, but now that
doing respins has been made easy, this is a bit of an annoyance. There have been
updates.img files made to take care of some critical problems, but they aren't
in a convenient place for people running revisor.
My suggestion is that there be an anaconda-updates package created for handling
critical installer bug fixes. Perhaps initially (for a given Fedora version)
this package could produce an empty file system. And then updates to the
installer could be added as critical installer issues are fixed.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2008-01-04 15:33:16 UTC

Is using the Fedora Unity respin for Fedora 8 good enough for you?  That fixes a
variety of these critical sorts of issues with entirely new installation media:

http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/fedora-8-re-spin-released

Comment 2 Bruno Wolff III 2008-01-04 19:17:07 UTC

In the short run sure. I was hoping in the long run that Unity's work would get
back into Fedora during the term of a release, rather than the following release.