Bug 828446 - rfe - use DVD in preupgrade
Summary: rfe - use DVD in preupgrade
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-04 18:19 UTC by Jim Cromie
Modified: 2013-02-13 14:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 14:45:55 UTC
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Description Jim Cromie 2012-06-04 18:19:05 UTC
Description of problem:

preupgrade is taking forever to download stuff thats already on the DVD I burned
(which breaks for other other reasons).  Itd be nice if there was a way to tell it to use the DVD in the drive.  

The README gives no help re how to use the tool
bad if your internet is busted

I tried running $> preupgrade --help while it was running in another
terminal, to see if there was such a feature.  It prompted for root password 
(it shouldnt - giving help should be read-only, not privileged)

Further, once I gave it, it appeared to do scary things to my other running session:

[jimc@groucho boot]$ preupgrade --help
Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout
No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache
No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves
Detected in-progress upgrade to Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)
Clearing data from upgrade to Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)
preupgrade (baseurl) 
  url: http://fake.url/preupgrade
  now: http://fake.url/preupgrade
preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386 (baseurl) 
  url: http://fake.url/preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386
  now: http://fake.url/preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386
preupgrade-adobe-linux-x86_64 (baseurl) 
  url: http://fake.url/preupgrade-adobe-linux-x86_64
  now: http://fake.url/preupgrade-adobe-linux-x86_64
preupgrade-fedora (baseurl) 
....

"Clearing data" that Ive spent much time downloading gives me heartburn;
though the other gui session seems to be proceeding, after a disconcerting
pause following the --help


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Comment 1 Jim Cromie 2012-06-04 18:42:43 UTC
DAMN

it did actually delete /boot/upgrade

A hugely overdone response to "cancel", esp when the "tip" says otherwize.

Comment 2 gatlibs 2012-06-04 23:26:24 UTC
I've cancelled the download many times, at many stages, and everytime that I had a partial download the result was an erased or unused download. I have been unsuccessfully attemping to download the preupgrade for F16x68_64. I'm not sure if what was downloaded was actually deleted or if it simply just re-downloads everything from the beginning anyway.
Does it delete when reinitialized after a cancelled attempt?

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