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

Mon Jul 23 11:53:06 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 23/07/12 10:48 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 22 July 2012 02:12, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> 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 means that live upgrade from mga[12] to mga3 through mgapplet
+> won't work...
+
+Correct. There has to be a conversion first before the rest of the
+upgrade can complete.
+
+I'm not actually a fan of such live updates via an applet anyway
+personally. It's fine for technical people, but for non-technical folks
+lots of things will break on their system until apps or the system is
+restarted anyway. I quite like the offline updates stuff that is
+happening in various corners for this kind of thing as it can all be
+wrapped up into a neat little package for updating, but I digress. We'll
+just have to find a nice way to bundle this up for mga[12].
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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