'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 18/11/12 23:52 did gyre and gimble: > > On 18 Nov 2012 22:13, "Colin Guthrie" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 18/11/12 16:40 did gyre and gimble: >> > On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 >> >> Well yes, this package installs a dracut config snippet that does always >> include the module. The rebuilding of the initrd is just that - a >> rebuild under the same name as is always used for the normal kernel - >> just with the extra convertfs module added. >> >> However, it requires special kernel command line to trigger the change >> and thus the bootloader entry adds the needed params for you. >> >> I'm not sure it would be a good idea to make any boot silently do the >> conversion. > > But you can have the new entry pointing to the non versionned symlinks
Yup, that would work I guess. Dunno why I didn't think of that :p Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
