On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:44:25 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote about [Mageia-dev] Switching from Cooker to Cauldron?:
>Hello, > >Now that GNOME3 is being imported to Cauldron, I'd like to switch my >Mandriva Cooker installation to Cauldron. > >However, Cooker has a different rpm for a while and I have that >installed. > >I'm guessing if I attempt to switch to Cauldron, it likely cannot read >the rpm5 database. > >I can only think of a few things: My experience: not bad, but takes a little effort: tarred everything on the machine and newly installed Mageia official, upgraded to cauldron and untarred local machine settings I require. For example shorewall, aliases, urpmi's skiplist, rkhunter.conf, logrotate specific settings, /usr/local and anything else privately configured. Merely kept my home and formatted everything else. I got into the hang of this when half a year ago I upgraded 32 to 64 bits. HTH mvg =Dick Gevers=
