[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

> This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your
> bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the "Mageia 3
> Upgrade Preparation" entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and
> then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally.
>
> I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the installation and
> creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not
> done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough.
>
> I just wanted to get this package "out there" for anyone wanting to
> update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the installer.
>
> At present there are a few limitations:
>
> 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should
> work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it
> does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only desirable
> to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package but do
> not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for
> the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to
> manage this welcome.

Cannot you just made dracut/mkinitrd always include it and just
rebuild initrds so
that any kernel with work

> 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in
> your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the
> upgrade boot.

Cannot you just automatically remount / rw?