Bug 2629

Summary:	do whatever is needed to upgrade from mdv2011
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	mageia, marja11, preugen
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Thierry Vignaud 2011-09-05 11:28:16 CEST

do whatever is needed to upgrade from mdv2011:
- rebuild rpm db
- downgrade rpm5 -> rpm.org
- ...

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-30 12:21:52 CET

We really want to support the update of mdv 2011 to mga 2 ?

Comment 2 Sander Lepik 2011-10-30 13:19:14 CET

Nop, we probably don't. We don't have QA members for that.. Our goal was to support those who are running on mdv2010.1/2 but after that they are on their own..

CC: (none) => sander.lepik

Comment 3 Sander Lepik 2011-10-30 13:20:37 CET

Also if we are going with sysvinit then we would have to downgrade mdv's systemd as well. This is just insane.

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2011-12-24 23:04:39 CET

@ Thierry

Do you still want this very much? Or can you close this request and continue to sleep peacefully?

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-14 06:43:24 CET

No reply, you must still have hope :)

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-14 12:40:34 CET

That's just a low priority project

Priority: Normal => Low
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 7 Jürgen PreuÃ 2012-03-18 00:43:19 CET

Hallo community,

without reading this snippets before I tried it with actual Mageia2beta2.

1. Replacement of urpmi repos of mdv2011 with mga2 ones on running mdv.

2. Upgrade with Mga2b2 DVD

Top 1:

There are some starting dependencies missing. Especially around rpm-tools. They are forcing a downgrade from version 5.3 to 4.9.
I won't risk it atm.

Top 2:

After booting from DVD it detects a partition with mdv 2011.0 and asks for actualisation. Next button leads to keyboard selection. ok.
Again next-button leads to selection of package groups and detects "core media".

The next "next" results in message "Error: 9" with ok-button. Explanation is "Can't call method" traverse_tag" on an undefined value."
"Ok" leads back to selection for further media and then loops to message "Error: 9".

I was interested and went down to shell (CTRL-ALT-F2).

"rpm --version" gave 5.3.12; "which rpm" gave /mnt/bin/rpm.
"rpm -r /mnt/var/lib/rpm -qa" resulted in "dbiOpen: Assertion" error.

Interested in crossing I tried to query rpm-db of mga2 in mdv2011 and vice versa. In mdv was no problem to "rpm -qa" with mga2 database. From mga2 it was not possible to read mdv's repository.
Possibly I'd to delete __db.* files and rebuild them on foreign system. 

Result:
Not usable today. Option to upgrade from MDV2011 should be blocked after detection of OS.

CC: (none) => preugen

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2012-03-18 09:56:21 CET

(In reply to comment #7)

> 
> Result:
> Not usable today. Option to upgrade from MDV2011 should be blocked after
> detection of OS.

Thanks, JÃ¼rgen

I'll make a clone of this report for that issue

Marja Van Waes 2012-03-18 09:56:56 CET

Blocks: (none) => 5004

Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-23 13:01:19 CEST

Blocks: 5004 => (none)

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:08:35 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2012-06-11 20:22:52 CEST

Too late to do this, so closing as wontfix

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX