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

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

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

@ Thierry

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

CC: (none) => marja11

No reply, you must still have hope :)

That's just a low priority project

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

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

(In reply to comment #7)

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

Thanks, Jürgen

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

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

Too late to do this, so closing as wontfix

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