[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

Sun Nov 18 17:40:21 CET 2012

On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+
+> This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your
+> bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the "Mageia 3
+> Upgrade Preparation" entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and
+> then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally.
+>
+> I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the installation and
+> creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not
+> done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough.
+>
+> I just wanted to get this package "out there" for anyone wanting to
+> update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the installer.
+>
+> At present there are a few limitations:
+>
+> 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should
+> work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it
+> does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only desirable
+> to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package but do
+> not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for
+> the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to
+> manage this welcome.
+
+Cannot you just made dracut/mkinitrd always include it and just
+rebuild initrds so
+that any kernel with work
+
+> 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in
+> your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the
+> upgrade boot.
+
+Cannot you just automatically remount / rw?
+