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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>>><i> +</I>>><i> Hmm, yes, I guess after doing the upgrade the various /var/run and +</I>>><i> /var/lock folders would be nuked. In mga3 they will be created by +</I>>><i> tmpfiles but not with a simple reboot on mga2... +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Hmm, I wonder how best to do this... perhaps we could ship updated +</I>>><i> packages for each of the packages which absolutely *need* this to do the +</I>>><i> download... or perhaps we could just ship some essential config tweaks +</I>>><i> in the this mageia-prepare-upgrade file. It shouldn't do any harm to do +</I>>><i> the latter and it's a bit easier on the QA folk. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Humm we could just package mageia-prepare-upgrade in mga3 and add +</I>><i> it to urpmi priority list. +</I>><i> Thus it would also work for people who never apply updates... +</I>><i> My 2 cents +</I> +Not sure it would help. I mean users have to install it, reboot and then +install the rest... + +Also how does the urpmi priority list work? Does that not require that +we install urpmi first? If so that likely won't work as there is a +chicken and egg scenario that prevents the rpm+urpmi from mga3 being +installed until the fs is updated. + + +Basically, a fully up-to-date mga2 (including rpm package and the +mageia-prepare-upgrade package) + reboot for preparation is needed for a +urpmi-based upgrades to work. + +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="020695.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="020734.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#20697">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#20697">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#20697">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#20697">[ 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> |