[Server-devel] XS 0.5 upgrade notes

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Douglas Bagnall
<douglas at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Some issues noticed with an upgrade from XS 0.4 to a XS 0.5 candidate.
>
> 1. eth0 and eth1 swapped physical ports.
>   After swapping the cables and `service network restart`, everything was good.

Yeah, that's worthy of a release note commment, and a pointer to
xs-swapnics which does the job too :-)


> I think Martin is working on #3. #4 is (theoretically) fixed.  The
> others look WONTFIX-able.

Agree.

> At this point I tried to yum upgrade to get changes I'd made since
> spinning the ISO, but nothing happened, because:
>
> [root at schoolserver1 ~]# yum repolist
> repo id              repo name                                status
> fedora               Fedora 7 - i386                          enabled :   7,382
> olpc                 OLPC 7 - i386                            enabled :      83
> updates              Fedora 7 - i386 - Updates                enabled :   4,545
>
> Yum still wants to use the XS 0.4 repos.  This seems to be related to
> #8033 and the use of the alternate /etc/yum.repos.olpc.d/, but I'm not
> entirely sure of the solution.

Ouch. So it's still using the old/bad yum config file? That'd be
something to look into around the xs-config upgrade path where we try
to fixup overwritten files.

good spotting,


m
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