Re: Draft release notes and errata for RC1 - please comment

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

Op 14-11-2006 om 08:12 schreef Sven Luther:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:55:54AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > >
> > > >   * IBM pseries on serial port : finish-install does not set the
> > > > /etc/inittab serial console. You need to edit /etc/inittab and set
> > > > your serial console by hand. (See #394970 for details).
> > 
> > Don't think these are significant enough that they need to be mentioned.
> 
> Sure they are. the first one will mean that users will facing a serial console
> with no getty waiting on it, and will think that the installtion went bad
> (been there, users get really confused, even i needed some time to catch the
> trick). Fixing this by chroting in the /target and adding the line by hand is
> trivial, so putting this in the errata would have been of uttermost
> importance.

IMNSHO is the missing (serial) console a valuable errata item.

That this is discussed under the subject
 release notes AND errata for RC1
leaves indeed room for a "tug of war" 


Cheers
Geert Stappers