[Mageia-discuss] Upgrade from mga1 to mga2 from desktop

Thu May 24 16:01:30 CEST 2012

On 24/05/12 14:57, Macxi wrote:
+> Em qui 24 mai 2012, às 09:52:15, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati escreveu:
+>> On Thursday 24 May 2012 08:09 my mailbox was graced by a message from
+>>
+>> Alejandro López who wrote:
+>>> Well, this is my proposition. What do you people think about it?
+>>
+>> Sounds both logical and reasonable.
+>>
+>> No doubt reasons will be found not to do it  ;-3)
+>>
+>> Cheers,
+>>
+>> Ron.
+> 
+> Alejandro and Ron, 
+> 
+> Yesterday I opened a topic in Mageia Forum (en) about it, to discuss this 
+> improvement: 
+> 
+> Distribution Upgrade Mageia 1 to Mageia 2
+> https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2506
+> 
+> 
+> And now, I opened a bug report: 
+> Bug 6068 - The texts of the dialog windows of Mageia Upgrade are not clear 
+> enough 
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6068
+> 
+> I still have no suggestions about it.
+> But as Alejandro, I also am concerned about this option, it seems, for a 
+> beginner, the best option, but I think technically more complicated and danger 
+> of breaking the system. 
+
+If you don't want any dialog during install, you can use the command line to
+upgrade your system with the parameter --auto.
+
+To do that, change your mirrors to Mageia 2 and use:
+$ urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto
+
+Best,
+-- 
+Malo
+