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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi</H1>
+ <B>Thomas Spuhler</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi">thomas at btspuhler.com
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+ <I>Sat Dec 8 23:51:15 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Sunday, November 18, 2012 09:37:43 AM Colin Guthrie wrote:
+&gt;<i> Hi,
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> As many of you know, upgrading from Mageia 2 is somewhat tricky due to
+</I>&gt;<i> the usr move.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> With Alpha3 comes the ability for the installer to upgrade the
+</I>&gt;<i> filesystem layout, but many of you (myself included) prefer upgrading
+</I>&gt;<i> via urpmi rather than the installer.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> While this is possible with some manual commands, it's not as trivial a
+</I>&gt;<i> task as it should be - until now!!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2
+</I>&gt;<i> core/updates_testing.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your
+</I>&gt;<i> bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the &quot;Mageia 3
+</I>&gt;<i> Upgrade Preparation&quot; entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and
+</I>&gt;<i> then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the installation and
+</I>&gt;<i> creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not
+</I>&gt;<i> done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I just wanted to get this package &quot;out there&quot; for anyone wanting to
+</I>&gt;<i> update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the installer.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> At present there are a few limitations:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should
+</I>&gt;<i> work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it
+</I>&gt;<i> does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only desirable
+</I>&gt;<i> to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package but do
+</I>&gt;<i> not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for
+</I>&gt;<i> the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to
+</I>&gt;<i> manage this welcome.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in
+</I>&gt;<i> your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the
+</I>&gt;<i> upgrade boot.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Happy testing. Let me know if it kills any kittens. Please keep a backup
+</I>&gt;<i> etc. etc.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Col
+</I>Thanks Colin.
+The conversion works. But then the problem shows, we have no network.
+doing a urpmi --download-all --auto-update only downloads the fist 120+ rpms (the ones needed before
+restart-urpmi
+
+What is needed is to add some directories and then the network will start
+/var/run/netreport
+/var/lock/subsystem/network
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+I will check after the upgrade if they can be deleted
+
+--
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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