Hello Mageia team. In the last few days I did a dist upgrade on my Mageia 1 system. I moved to Mageia 2. Now I've done a few dist upgrades in my time and I must say that instructions on the mageia site were clear about what I needed to do. As always a few things happened that were unexpected. First off, I picked in the update applet that I wanted to download all packages before the upgrade. As my / file-system would not hold all packages I created one in my home dir (non-root), and clicked go. It starts and then tells me that the directory has the wrong permissions. However I can not adjust which directory it downloads to, nor does it tell me what permissions it needed (I think it said "wrong owner" but I am not certain). Anyway I restarted the upgrade without first downloading the packages and it all went smoothly.
After the upgrade Evolution did not have any mailboxes nor any mails. I sort of expected this and it is a problem with Gnome/Evolution rather than than Magieia. I followed the instructions I found on the net regarding migrating from mbox to mdir and things were peaches again. Second was that I only had a "suspend" rather than "power off" button in Gnome shell. I know this was a Gnome decision, so I went looking for the gnome-shell-extensions but could not find them in the repository. I found the bug-report that asked for them to be removed. To that regard I built them myself from the Fedora 17 SRPMS (Fedora 17 runs the same Gnome version as Mageia 2). And they work fine. I put them up on http://rpm.staticthings.com/ if anyone else is interested. In all I am very pleased with how the upgrade went, good work guys and gals! regards Daniel
