'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 23/07/12 10:48 did gyre and gimble: > On 22 July 2012 02:12, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here is how to update your cauldron systems: >> >> 1. Run "urpmi --auto-update" install everything that can be installed. >> 2. Ensure that latest dracut is installed. Run "urpmi dracut" to make >> sure (it may have been excluded in the --auto-update if it was in a >> transaction with other packages that could not be installed). >> 3. Ensure that you do not have zapata or dpkg installed (rpm -e zapata; >> rpm -e dpkg) >> 4. Generate a new initrd and include the conversion script: dracut -f >> -a convertfs >> 5. If you have /usr on a separate partition >> - Ensure there is enough free space to hold /bin, /sbin, /lib and >> /lib64 content. >> - If your /usr is mounted readonly, change your /etc/fstab to mount >> it rw. >> 6. Reboot. >> 7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: "rw >> rd.convertfs" (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot. > > That means that live upgrade from mga[12] to mga3 through mgapplet > won't work...
Correct. There has to be a conversion first before the rest of the upgrade can complete. I'm not actually a fan of such live updates via an applet anyway personally. It's fine for technical people, but for non-technical folks lots of things will break on their system until apps or the system is restarted anyway. I quite like the offline updates stuff that is happening in various corners for this kind of thing as it can all be wrapped up into a neat little package for updating, but I digress. We'll just have to find a nice way to bundle this up for mga[12]. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
