[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Sander Lepik sander.lepik at eesti.ee
Tue Sep 25 12:20:23 CEST 2012


25.09.2012 13:07, Thierry Vignaud kirjutas:
> On 9 September 2012 20:42, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>> Those cannot be done anymore.
>>> Now updating rpm in order to be able to sole the unifiedsystemdir depends
>>> pulls filesystem...
>>> Classic egg & chicken issue...
>> Yes, this has been a problem for a while now in Cauldron. But not many
>> users are asking this question these days, so the likely path now is
>> from mga2 -> cauldron which is probably where the effort should be focused.
> BTW I tested live upgrade from FC17 to FC18.
> It works smoothly if you don't have third party packages.
> in FC there's no need for a special boot, everything is hanled by filesystem
> package's pre/post scripts:
Hmm, /usr move in Fedora is already done: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17
I don't see what problems you could have during upgrade from f17 to f18. 
Try a live upgrade from f16 to f17 w/o those steps ;)

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Sander



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