Bug 446476

Summary:	preupgrade / anaconda fail if we need to update packages that are in Everything
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patrick C. F. Ernzer <pcfe>
Component:	preupgrade	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	10	CC:	wwoods
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Description Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-05-14 18:54:00 UTC

Description of problem:
preupgrade /  anaconda fail if we need to update packages that are in Everything

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
preupgrade-0.9.3-3

How reproducible:
did not try but expect this to be always reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run preupgrade under F8 to go to F9
2. reboot when prompted
3. F9 anaconda runs
  
Actual results:
in my case it choked on unison227, which we have in Everything but not in Fedora

Expected results:
system upgrades cleanly

Additional info:
setting Sev to high as one of our much publicised features does not work even if
the package is still in updates-testing of F8

Comment 1 Will Woods 2008-05-14 19:11:35 UTC

The problem here is that we have two repos - instrepo (Fedora, which has
kernel/initrd/stage2) and distrepo (Everything, but no kernel images).

Currently we set method=instrepo as a fallback for the case where we're missing
packages / images. Lacking stage2 is very common - it happens on any system
where /boot is less than 200MB - so this made sense.

Instead we should probably do method=distrepo, and have
stage2=instrepo+stage2path in the case where we're missing stage2.

Comment 2 Will Woods 2008-05-14 19:12:29 UTC

Well. The *real* fix would be to get F8 yum and F9 yum (in anaconda) to agree on
which packages you need on multilib systems. But that's a much, much harder problem.

Comment 3 Will Woods 2008-05-14 22:24:47 UTC

Current bzr now uses distrepo for method=URL.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:16:06 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Will Woods 2008-12-01 15:45:15 UTC

The "real" fix has been implemented for F10 - preupgrade and anaconda share anaconda-yum-plugins, which decides which packages are needed.