[Mageia-discuss] Upgrade from mga1 to mga2 from desktop

[Malo]

On 24/05/12 14:57, Macxi wrote:
> Em qui 24 mai 2012, às 09:52:15, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati escreveu:
>> On Thursday 24 May 2012 08:09 my mailbox was graced by a message from
>>
>> Alejandro López who wrote:
>>> Well, this is my proposition. What do you people think about it?
>>
>> Sounds both logical and reasonable.
>>
>> No doubt reasons will be found not to do it  ;-3)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ron.
> 
> Alejandro and Ron, 
> 
> Yesterday I opened a topic in Mageia Forum (en) about it, to discuss this 
> improvement: 
> 
> Distribution Upgrade Mageia 1 to Mageia 2
> https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2506
> 
> 
> And now, I opened a bug report: 
> Bug 6068 - The texts of the dialog windows of Mageia Upgrade are not clear 
> enough 
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6068
> 
> I still have no suggestions about it.
> But as Alejandro, I also am concerned about this option, it seems, for a 
> beginner, the best option, but I think technically more complicated and danger 
> of breaking the system. 

If you don't want any dialog during install, you can use the command line to
upgrade your system with the parameter --auto.

To do that, change your mirrors to Mageia 2 and use:
$ urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto

Best,
-- 
Malo