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Simply install this package, reboot, select the "Mageia 3 +</I>>><i> Upgrade Preparation" entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and +</I>>><i> then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the installation and +</I>>><i> creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not +</I>>><i> done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I just wanted to get this package "out there" for anyone wanting to +</I>>><i> update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the installer. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> At present there are a few limitations: +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should +</I>>><i> work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it +</I>>><i> does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only desirable +</I>>><i> to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package but do +</I>>><i> not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for +</I>>><i> the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to +</I>>><i> manage this welcome. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in +</I>>><i> your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the +</I>>><i> upgrade boot. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Happy testing. Let me know if it kills any kittens. Please keep a backup +</I>>><i> etc. etc. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Col +</I>><i> Thanks Colin. +</I>><i> The conversion works. But then the problem shows, we have no network. +</I>><i> doing a urpmi --download-all --auto-update only downloads the fist 120+ rpms (the ones needed before +</I>><i> restart-urpmi +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What is needed is to add some directories and then the network will start +</I>><i> /var/run/netreport +</I>><i> /var/lock/subsystem/network +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I will check after the upgrade if they can be deleted +</I> +Hmm, yes, I guess after doing the upgrade the various /var/run and +/var/lock folders would be nuked. In mga3 they will be created by +tmpfiles but not with a simple reboot on mga2... + +Hmm, I wonder how best to do this... perhaps we could ship updated +packages for each of the packages which absolutely *need* this to do the +download... or perhaps we could just ship some essential config tweaks +in the this mageia-prepare-upgrade file. It shouldn't do any harm to do +the latter and it's a bit easier on the QA folk. + +Cheers for the report + + +Col + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="020664.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="020679.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#20677">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#20677">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#20677">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#20677">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |