Bug 750656

Summary: upgrade from F14 doesn't pull in gnome-shell, fallback mode used
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Charles R. Anderson <cra>
Component: fedupAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: djuran, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora, wwoods
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Description Charles R. Anderson 2011-11-01 21:27:26 UTC
Description of problem:

After upgrading from F14 to F16, there is no gnome-shell package.  As a result, logging into gnome produces uses fallback mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-16.24

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F14 Live Desktop x86_64
2. enable updates-testing
3. yum update
4. Upgrade to F16 RC3 using DVD (in my case over HTTP)

Actual results:

gnome-shell doesn't get pulled into the upgrade transaction.
Gnome starts in fallback mode.

Expected results:

gnome-shell should be pulled into upgrade.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2011-11-02 13:10:30 UTC
Upgrades only upgrade packages, they don't install new ones unless those packages are required by other things already installed that will be updated.  Does anything being updated actually require gnome-shell?

Comment 2 Charles R. Anderson 2011-11-02 16:16:49 UTC
I would guess not.  There were lots of other issues with this upgrade anyway.
An initial "yum update" after the upgrade to F16 failed due to broken deps in the rpmdb.  I guess we don't really support upgrades from Fn-2 to Fn.  If we DO care about that, then I would expect anaconda to have SOME logic in it to bring the Fn user experience to upgraders from Fn-2, at least for important packages like gnome-shell, or perhaps it is up to the Gnome developers to make the gnome-shell package obsolete the older UI.

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2011-11-13 01:02:54 UTC
It would perhaps be possible to do an upgrade that also installed all the new default/mandatory packages, but I think that's a decision to be made at a higher level than just anaconda.  I think we'd need to sit down and see what Fedora thinks the upgrade experience should be.

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