Tibor Pittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > before releasing mdk 9.2 i have one principial question: > what method of upgrade are precise tested? what method is fully > supported and works well? (urpmi, cd upgrade, handy rpm -Uvh, other?) > > is cd upgrade method fully tested with qa team? is this method fully > tested and supported with 9.1, 9.0, 8.2? > especially focus on 8.2, because this version ends support from mandrake > at 30.sep, then many users can make _painless_ upgrade from this version > to 9.2. > > btw. i can't find any related documentation about upgrade procedure at > mandrakelinux.com web site (maybe my fault..)
I will try to make an urpmi update for a lot of distribution, including current urpmi and current perl-URPM, compiled for their respective targets (at least 9.0 and 9.1, I will try to add 8.2). Eventually, security updates will be done to add the support so that urpmi could more easily used to upgrade the system (normally I will try to add them in unsupported first). Anyway, upgrade using installer (booting the installer in upgrade mode to be precise) is the way to upgrade the distribution. Using urpmi should be another method : * upgrade urpmi if needed (updates or direct update of target urpmi (complicated)). * urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom will import gpg keys and 9.2 media to be used. * urpmi --auto-select (will need a lot of space in /var unless network media are used), kernel may need to be installed (depending if a require on some of the package needs explicitely a newer kernel, highly probable with older version). * reboot (still better not to use old copy of almost all libraries and current libraries). François.
