[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Fri Aug 3 01:23:13 CEST 2012

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> OK, so the packages have now all been uploaded.
+>
+> You should see several packages now that you cannot install on Cauldron.
+> This is intended behaviour.
+>
+> Here is how to update your cauldron systems:
+>
+>  1. Run "urpmi --auto-update" install everything that can be installed.
+>  2. Ensure that latest dracut is installed. Run "urpmi dracut" to make
+> sure (it may have been excluded in the --auto-update if it was in a
+> transaction with other packages that could not be installed).
+>  3. Ensure that you do not have zapata or dpkg installed (rpm -e zapata;
+> rpm -e dpkg)
+>  4. Generate a new initrd and include the conversion script: dracut -f
+> -a convertfs
+>  5. If you have /usr on a separate partition
+>      - Ensure there is enough free space to hold /bin, /sbin, /lib and
+> /lib64 content.
+>      - If your /usr is mounted readonly, change your /etc/fstab to mount
+> it rw.
+>  6. Reboot.
+>  7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: "rw
+> rd.convertfs" (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot.
+>
+> That should be all that is needed :)
+
+How to update a chroot?
+