[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 in VirtualBox fails to upgrade to Mageia Cauldron due to /usr move
Shlomi Fish
shlomif at shlomifish.org
Tue Jul 31 19:46:11 CEST 2012
Hi John,
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:42:03 -0300
John Balcaen <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
> 2012/7/31 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am including here a log of the IRC conversation I had with some people on
> > upgrading my x86-64 VBox virtual machine from Mageia 2 to Mageia Linux
> > Cauldron. I could not get an adequate answer regarding it from anyone there and
> > hope someone can help me here (I've waited long enough).
> >
> > For the record, I'm trying to restore my backups into the VM to a working
> > state, and ran into a problem, see:
>
> [...]
> Did you install rpm/urpmi from updates/testing before ?
> If no you'll have (as i did) have to manually install first rpm &
> dependencies directly via rpm due to the filesystem require [1] ,
Where can I find a script that will do that for me? Is there one?
> than
> dracut, reboot to do the migration & once you're done you should be
> able to update without problem.
>
>
>
> [1] see the thread named " My feeeling about the
> rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) dependency " & the circular dep
> problem.
>
I'll check it out - thanks.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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