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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 25 September 2012 12:20, Sander Lepik <sander.lepik at eesti.ee> wrote:
>>>> Those cannot be done anymore.
>>>> Now updating rpm in order to be able to sole the unifiedsystemdir
>>>> depends
>>>> pulls filesystem...
>>>> Classic egg & chicken issue...
>>>
>>> Yes, this has been a problem for a while now in Cauldron. But not many
>>> users are asking this question these days, so the likely path now is
>>> from mga2 -> cauldron which is probably where the effort should be
>>> focused.
>>
>> BTW I tested live upgrade from FC17 to FC18.
>> It works smoothly if you don't have third party packages.
>> in FC there's no need for a special boot, everything is hanled by
>> filesystem
>> package's pre/post scripts:
>
> Hmm, /usr move in Fedora is already done:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17
> I don't see what problems you could have during upgrade from f17 to f18. Try
> a live upgrade from f16 to f17 w/o those steps ;)

AFAIC I've done both.