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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 23/07/12 10:48 did gyre and gimble:
> On 22 July 2012 02:12, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> Here is how to update your cauldron systems:
>>
>>  1. Run "urpmi --auto-update" install everything that can be installed.
>>  2. Ensure that latest dracut is installed. Run "urpmi dracut" to make
>> sure (it may have been excluded in the --auto-update if it was in a
>> transaction with other packages that could not be installed).
>>  3. Ensure that you do not have zapata or dpkg installed (rpm -e zapata;
>> rpm -e dpkg)
>>  4. Generate a new initrd and include the conversion script: dracut -f
>> -a convertfs
>>  5. If you have /usr on a separate partition
>>      - Ensure there is enough free space to hold /bin, /sbin, /lib and
>> /lib64 content.
>>      - If your /usr is mounted readonly, change your /etc/fstab to mount
>> it rw.
>>  6. Reboot.
>>  7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: "rw
>> rd.convertfs" (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot.
> 
> That means that live upgrade from mga[12] to mga3 through mgapplet
> won't work...

Correct. There has to be a conversion first before the rest of the
upgrade can complete.

I'm not actually a fan of such live updates via an applet anyway
personally. It's fine for technical people, but for non-technical folks
lots of things will break on their system until apps or the system is
restarted anyway. I quite like the offline updates stuff that is
happening in various corners for this kind of thing as it can all be
wrapped up into a neat little package for updating, but I digress. We'll
just have to find a nice way to bundle this up for mga[12].

Col


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