[Mageia-dev] Meeting tonight

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 15 September 2011 16:12, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:

> Suggestions:
> - investigating using the equivalent of --searchmedia
> - reusing the old connectiva upgrade infrastructure in the drakx installer
>  and release a patched installed (a mageia 1.1) that list mdv packages, remove
>  them prior to upgrading"
> - patch perl-URPM so that foobar-X-Ymga is always newer than foobar-Z-Wmdv
>
> In the first case, we would go with something like r[1-4].diff
> warning: unknown impact on startup time & RAM usage (in fact it's not
> even tested)
>
> in the second case, that only cover the installer case, we should update
> install::steps to favor mga over mdv.
> See patches gi0X.diff (untested)
> cf perl-install/install/share/upgrade/conectiva.10/* and
> install:steps::upgrading_redhat()
> But this means releasing an updated installer and updated ISOs...

we could list all renamed packages into into
perl-install/install/share/upgrade/mandriva/map
and apply patch gi05 in order to remove all mdv packages before upgrading,
resolving your issues but loosing conf through *.rpmsave
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