[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 in VirtualBox fails to upgrade to Mageia Cauldron due to /usr move

Tue Jul 31 19:46:11 CEST 2012

Hi John,
+
+On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:42:03 -0300
+John Balcaen <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
+
+> 2012/7/31 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>:
+> > Hi all,
+> >
+> > I am including here a log of the IRC conversation I had with some people on
+> > upgrading my x86-64 VBox virtual machine from Mageia 2 to Mageia Linux
+> > Cauldron. I could not get an adequate answer regarding it from anyone there and
+> > hope someone can help me here (I've waited long enough).
+> >
+> > For the record, I'm trying to restore my backups into the VM to a working
+> > state, and ran into a problem, see:
+> 
+> [...]
+> Did you install rpm/urpmi from updates/testing before ?
+> If no you'll have (as i did) have to manually install first rpm &
+> dependencies directly via rpm due to the filesystem require [1] , 
+
+Where can I find a script that will do that for me? Is there one?
+
+> than
+> dracut, reboot to do the migration & once you're done you should be
+> able to update without problem.
+> 
+> 
+> 
+> [1] see the thread named " My feeeling about the
+> rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) dependency " & the circular  dep
+> problem.
+> 
+
+I'll check it out - thanks.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
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