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<H1>[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 18/11/12 23:52 did gyre and gimble:
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</I>><i> On 18 Nov 2012 22:13, "Colin Guthrie" <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>
</I>><i> <mailto:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>>> wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 18/11/12 16:40 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>><i> > On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>
</I>><i> <mailto:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>>> wrote:
</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> >> This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your
</I>>><i> >> bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the "Mageia 3
</I>>><i> >> Upgrade Preparation" entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and
</I>>><i> >> then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally.
</I>>><i> >>
</I>>><i> >> I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the
</I>><i> installation and
</I>>><i> >> creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not
</I>>><i> >> done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough.
</I>>><i> >>
</I>>><i> >> I just wanted to get this package "out there" for anyone wanting to
</I>>><i> >> update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the
</I>><i> installer.
</I>>><i> >>
</I>>><i> >> At present there are a few limitations:
</I>>><i> >>
</I>>><i> >> 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should
</I>>><i> >> work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it
</I>>><i> >> does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only
</I>><i> desirable
</I>>><i> >> to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package
</I>><i> but do
</I>>><i> >> not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for
</I>>><i> >> the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to
</I>>><i> >> manage this welcome.
</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> > Cannot you just made dracut/mkinitrd always include it and just
</I>>><i> > rebuild initrds so
</I>>><i> > that any kernel with work
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Well yes, this package installs a dracut config snippet that does always
</I>>><i> include the module. The rebuilding of the initrd is just that - a
</I>>><i> rebuild under the same name as is always used for the normal kernel -
</I>>><i> just with the extra convertfs module added.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> However, it requires special kernel command line to trigger the change
</I>>><i> and thus the bootloader entry adds the needed params for you.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I'm not sure it would be a good idea to make any boot silently do the
</I>>><i> conversion.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But you can have the new entry pointing to the non versionned symlinks
</I>
Yup, that would work I guess. Dunno why I didn't think of that :p
Col
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