> But using a DVD to upgrade an already installed system is a good way to get > around the fact that many packages, including nonfree firmware, are missing > from the DVD. > If one does a clean install, one has to try to find a lot of missing > packages, because they are no longer installed. This impacts considerably > the usability of the system. (Considering what the user had installed.) > All one has to do after the upgrade install, is reboot and do a normal > upgrade with rpmdrake (selecting "all updates" and "all packages"), and > almost everything works well. > (For me upgrade to mga1 worked perfectly. The last 2 upgrades with mdv had > some problems, due to other factors. A clean install has always caused me a > lot of problems.) > With a clean install, it can be problematic to find all the missing > packages, as well as missing firmware.
I'm not saying we remove all upgrade ways as we still have mgaapplet. We experienced *a lot* of problem during QA tests using DVD to upgrade. Really I don'"t understand your point... > > Note that I don't use mgaapplet after an upgrade install, since it doesn't > give me all the information I want, to help me decide if I should drop some > packages that were installed. This is not the role of this tool. > It may be that using mgaapplet after an upgrade install is the weak link in > the chain. > And certainly urpmi is not a convenient tool at this point. (Although I use > it a lot at other times.) So because mgaapplet is buggy for upgrades, we should just let it down and use DVD ? > > Note also that with upgrade install, even firmware that is missing from the > release (and not only the DVD) remains installed. So there are cases where > an upgrade install necessarily produces a better functioning system. > > So in sum, in my view, removing upgrade install for DVDs would be an > important regression. > But maybe we should suggest rebooting and using rpmdrake after such an > install. This is non sense... Either the upgrade tool does its job properly or not... How can we say Mageia is easy when you propose such process? > > Regards :) > > -- > André > -- Anne http://www.mageia.org
