[Mageia-dev] Better saying it.

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 27 September 2010 15:12, Gustavo Ariel Giampaoli
<giampaoli.gustavo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm not developer but I think that, even if Mageia will be a
> fork of Mandriva, it's like ask to get Fedora updating a previously
> installed Mandriva.
>
> IMHO, best way of getting Mageia if you have another distro, will be
> making a clean install.

Actually drakx has the infrastucture in place in order to upgrade
another distro (eg: connectiva, older fedora)
cf
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/share/upgrade/

It hasn't been used/tested for a long time though