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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 18/11/12 17:59 did gyre and gimble:
> This is great, but if you are running it on a Virtualbox, it will not work (at least it didn't work 
> 2 weeks ago). 

I presume you just mean urpmi upgrading generally rather than anything
usr move specific which is the main point in this thread?

> The problem is I (you) lose the network connection at the initial 100+ packages 
> upgrade and you cannot finish it.
> I may try it again after the holidays, but we may need to put a warning out.
> The other option would be to download everything before the actaul upgrade.

I've had to deal with similar problems for many years. Either nfs mounts
are lost and the path to the install mirror is lost, or named restarts
and DNS fails. There are no doubt other paths too, but this is a fairly
common issue all the same. Obviously it would be nice to handle it (in
all it's causes) more gracefully, but it's not strictly speaking why I
started this thread (although I cannot deny it firs the subject :p)

Col



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