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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Switching from Cooker to Cauldron?</H1>
<B>Christiaan Welvaart</B>
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<I>Thu Jun 9 14:26:12 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters wrote:
><i> I'm guessing if I attempt to switch to Cauldron, it likely cannot read
</I>><i> the rpm5 database.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I can only think of a few things:
</I>><i> 1. Create a new partition, install Mageia 1 on that, switch to Cauldron,
</I>><i> install all the non-automatic installed packages, copy stuff from the
</I>><i> Cauldron partition to the existing one
</I>><i> -> Not too sure about the copying. I've modified various things over the
</I>><i> years (e.g. special Postfix setup and so on)
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You can look for all config files you changed (probably using an rpm
command) and copy/merge those on the new system. Can be quite a bit of
work.
><i> 2. Just attempt to install Cauldron, forcefully reinstall the packages,
</I>><i> and ignore the rpm difference
</I>><i> -> I think this will fail though
</I>
You can wipe out the package database, but then after installing all
non-automatic installed packages, you'll probably have many files
unaccounted for (not owned by any installed package). Not a good idea
probably. Also all pre/post install scripts will be ran in new install
mode instead of upgrade mode. I did something like this with a VM (that
isn't very important to me) and I'm still finding new problems in it (but
it works anyway).
><i> 3. Somehow export/downgrade the 'rpm5' info to rpm4. Is this possible
</I>><i> and how?
</I>
There is supposedly a script that can convert the package database both
ways in mdv, but nobody probably tried this yet.
><i> 4. Wait for Mageia to have rpm5. Is this planned?
</I>
Not currently planned.
><i> Note: I don't mind some ugly workaround. e.g. I switched from i386->x86_64
</I>><i> without reinstalling. My Cooker installation is from 2004 or so.
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A switch in architecture is not really ugly - the package database
supports this.
Christiaan
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