[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 can be turned to cauldron actually?

Tue Aug 28 10:11:06 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 28/08/12 02:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Monday, August 27, 2012 07:38:44 AM Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Luiz Alberto Saba at 27/08/12 15:23 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Hi guys
+>>>
+>>> I've done a fresh mageia 2 install (x86_64) to test a new ssd.
+>>> Can I change the resitories to cauldron and do a urpmi --auto-select or
+>>> it will not work?
+>>
+>> Install the update rpm package from mga2 updates_testing first, then
+>> switch your repos and "urpmi dracut" and follow the instructions from
+>> step 2 on https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UsrMove#Release_Notes.
+>>
+>> After following these steps the rest of the auto-select/upgrade should
+>> go smoothly.
+>>
+>> Let me know if there are any issues.
+>>
+>> Col
+> 
+> And if you upgrade from 2, then be very, very patient. You will see a lot of 
+> errors when booting and and you need to wait for timeouts to happen. The /usr 
+> move kind of happens randomly.
+
+It certainly shouldn't behave that way! It certainly doesn't "happen
+randomly", it happens when you specifically tell it to happen via a
+kernel command line argument and if you're on the same filesystem for
+both / and /usr then the whole process will usually take < 1 minute
+(depending on disk speed and number of packages).
+
+There should be NO timeouts (or at least no *more* timeouts than usual!
+:p) The usrmove part of the initrd is just a script that is run at the
+right point and has absolutely zero bearing on any timeouts.
+
+I've not seen any bug report about this behaviour (other than what has
+been discussed and resolved on this list), so if you have such reports,
+please do share them.
+
+The new dracut was problematic due to various incompatibilities and
+issues introduced by half updated systems in cauldron, but upgrading
+from mga2 should, in theory at least, be much smoother.
+
+> You may need to try a few times.  Calculate 
+> about 1/2 hour to boot, but eventually you should get there.
+> 
+> This is on a virtual box.
+
+Can you give more details. If it's VB then any strange timeouts etc.
+should be easy to reproduce. I have of course ran this upgrade about 20
+times inside virtual box and even when they were on separate partitions
+it didn't take more than a few minutes to copy the files.
+
+I'd really like to get to the bottom of any issue, but I need specifics!
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
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