http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990374
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990374#c2
--- Comment #2 from Dominique Leuenberger
Using a net-iso to install from a not exactly matching repo was never a valid use-case and may or may not have worked. People I spoke to before enabling the check couldn't think of any valid use case either.
TW is a rolling release, so you can't have a 'TW-net-iso' for all TW releases. You just could use it in the past 'for a while'.
Of course not 'all' and I'm sure nobody expects that - but the fact that the net installer is now only valid for 24 hours until the next snapshot comes out is way beyond useful for a rolling distro; it's not as if the net installer disk would really change that much
I'm deeply worried to hear that we even run QA tests with such a broken setup. :-( We definitely should fix those tests.
you call it broken - I call it feature: the test basically took the 'newest net installer image' and installed Tumbleweed that is currently published (that is: one snapshot version older) - and this was merely introduced to test TW-as-published to TW-to-be-published upgrade tests.
Suggestions welcome, but I can't see atm how to help with this.
I fully see this as a valid check for 'regular' product trees - for TW, it's just not usable (of course if a 1-year old NET installer does not work with a current TW Snapshot, we'd not expect this to be fixable) - Maybe this check can be disabled for Tumbleweed installs? (build config parameter when building rpmlintrc for Tumbleweed)
The is an 'instsyscomplain=0' boot option to turn the check off but you really will run into spurious errors sooner or later.
sooner or later - so far never (so it must be later); the boot option is no valid workaround for a NET installer we offer for download. The 2nd best I could come up with is passing this by default to the net-installer iso generation - but that's even hackier than just disabling the check in linuxrc in first place -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.