[Server-devel] XS-0.7 beta 1 released

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> In /isolinux/isolinux.cfg, "upgradeany" is used with full install
>> options, think that will force anaconda into upgrade mode.
>
> This was copied over from the earlier XS-0.7 work. I see that XS-0.6
> does not include this option. Any idea why, and what the implications
> are? Should we be including the option or not?

The option is there to allow an upgrade from a "different" (yet
rpm-based) distro, as identified by the 'product' field (2nd line) in
.discinfo.

Looking at the 0.7 beta1 iso, it still identifies itself as "OLPC
School Server", so upgradeany is not needed to upgrade from 0.6. It is
needed to upgrade from a "vanilla" CentOS.

AFAIK, upgradeany won't force "upgrade mode" -- full install mode is
always available, and upgrade is only available if the installed
partitions have some RPM-based OS somewhere.

cheers,



m
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