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

Fri Aug 3 01:40:06 CEST 2012

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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?
+
+Answering to myself:
+
+chroot $chroot urpmi dracut
+$chroot/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/30convertfs/convertfs.sh $chroot
+
+That did the conversion, but I still can't update, probably because my
+rpm is too old (rpm-4.9.1.3-2.mga2) as it was not possible to update
+it before the conversion (it pulls filesystem).
+