Description of problem: On my F8 install an nfs update to F9 fails if the F8 DVD image is in the nfs directory containing the F9 DVD image. Anaconda seems to mistakenly pick up the F8 image and then think that there are no packages to update. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F9 final release. How reproducible: Every time on this one machine at least. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start from fully updated F8 2. Start an nfs install (tried text and graphical) 3. Point to an nfs directory which contains both the F9 and F8 DVD images. 4. Follow prompts to upgrade Actual results: Upgrade happens very quickly, but says it has completed successfully. In actual fact nothing has been updated and the machine is still running F8. Expected results: F8 is upgraded to F9.
Created attachment 305347 [details] Anaconda log from failed update.
Created attachment 305348 [details] Syslog from failed update
I should add, that moving all the non F9 images out from the nfs directory has now allowed this machine to be successfully updated. No other changes were made to the update procedure.
Right, that is to be expected. However we are moving more and more down the path of separating anaconda from the installation payload so I don't see that there's much we can do here to check for matching versions. It's really just best to keep the installation media in separate locations from here on out.
Thanks for the reply. I have to say that this caught me completely unaware and certainly wasn't what I expected! I've done many nfs installs before and have a single ISO directory where all my ISOs are kept and I'd be surprised if I was the only one to do this. The problem I faced in the install was that at no point was there any indication that anything had gone wrong (apart from the fact that it completed so quickly!). I saw an installer with Fedora 9 written all over it, and got a message telling me I had successfully upgraded. This can't be the expected behaviour. It may well be that with the way the architecture pans out that anaconda isn't the place to handle this, but it should be handled somewhere. Even a simple list of ISOs found after you've done the NFS configuration so you can select the right one would be OK. An error warning that multiple install targets were found and a note saying which one it was using would have done, but would be less useful.
Yeah, I am beginning to wonder if it makes sense to have a dialog in the second stage UI that says something to the effect of: "I found the following ISO images. Do you really want to proceed with using them?" I see two problems with this approach: (1) By the time we go looking for ISO images with packages on them, we've partitioned and it's really too late to stop installation and change your mind. (2) Putting it in install.img means there's no help when we go looking for the install.img itself, and that's where a lot of the confusion here is coming from. Jeremy, any interesting ideas on clearing up the confusion described in comment #5?
(In reply to comment #6) > Yeah, I am beginning to wonder if it makes sense to have a dialog in the second > stage UI that says something to the effect of: "I found the following ISO > images. Do you really want to proceed with using them?" > > I see two problems with this approach: > > (1) By the time we go looking for ISO images with packages on them, we've > partitioned and it's really too late to stop installation and change your mind. It's probably not _worse_ than what we do now. > (2) Putting it in install.img means there's no help when we go looking for the > install.img itself, and that's where a lot of the confusion here is coming > from. Yeah, pain. > Jeremy, any interesting ideas on clearing up the confusion described in comment > #5? Nothing springs to mind right now :/
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