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

[Olivier Blin]

Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> writes:

>> I've clarified these instructions on the wiki:
>> 
>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UsrMove#Release_Notes
>> 
>> 
>> Feel free to augment them with better info as needed.
>> 
> I now have a functioning system, but not without some jiggery-pokery
> :-)  The good news, though, is that I can almost certainly point to
> the problem and solution.
>
> Normally I update my systems almost daily, but for reasons not
> relevant here, the netbook hasn't been switched on for about a week,
> so there were a number of updates waiting.
>
> I started with the full update, which failed, part-way through, as
> expected.  What I didn't realise, though, was that it had failed
> before updating the kernel (and, as it happens, half way through
> updating KDE which became unusable).
>
> Basically I followed the hints you gave Charles, and finally got
> things running again.
>
> I would suggest, then, that you make "update your kernel and reboot"
> the very first instruction, before updating everything else.
> Undoubtedly there will be others who, for whatever reason, don't have
> the absolute latest kernel, and don't realise that an update is needed.

I have updated the command in the wiki to be:
urpmi --auto-update --skip '/filesystem|ncurses/'
(as I have pointed earlier in this thread)

This will install a lot more packages (including kernel), before the
/usr move.

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino