• How far off is Mageia Ver 10??

    From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Friday, September 20, 2024 11:12:35
    I'm getting reasonably serious about updating my current MGA V6 to MGA
    V9 .... and was just wondering how far off MGA V10 might be.

    Any clues, guesses??
    --
    Daniel

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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Friday, September 20, 2024 11:22:59
    Daniel70 wrote on 20/9/24 8:12 pm:
    I'm getting reasonably serious about updating my current MGA V6 to MGA
    V9 .... and was just wondering how far off MGA V10 might be.

    Any clues, guesses??

    And, now, here I am answering my own question .......

    I had a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_10_Development (last
    edited a fortnight ago) and, it would seem, MGA V10 might be a
    Christmas/New Year Present for us.

    Hmmm!! Do I now bother upgrading to V9?? Can I use that as practice for
    the V10 upgrade?? ;-P
    --
    Daniel

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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Daniel70 on Friday, September 20, 2024 15:13:21

    Hello Daniel70!

    20 Sep 24 11:22, Daniel70 wrote to all:

    Daniel70 wrote on 20/9/24 8:12 pm:
    I'm getting reasonably serious about updating my current MGA V6 to
    MGA V9 .... and was just wondering how far off MGA V10 might be.

    Any clues, guesses??

    And, now, here I am answering my own question .......

    I had a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_10_Development (last
    edited a fortnight ago) and, it would seem, MGA V10 might be a
    Christmas/New Year Present for us.

    Hmmm!! Do I now bother upgrading to V9?? Can I use that as practice
    for the V10 upgrade?? ;-P
    --
    Daniel

    For a given new version of MGA they only test for the current version ->
    new one so this is from v8 -> v9 and yes you can still have issues, even
    more so if you have installed packages/libraries out side of MGA package manager.

    So the answer is that a migratory update from v6 -> v9 cannot be done using
    the automated method other than by doing V6 -> V7, V7-> V8 then V8 -> V9
    but at least the computer is doing the hard work.

    Otherwise, create new partition (assuming your have the space or compress currently used size) for V9 and install it into this new one.

    If needed use script rpmlist.sh to create a file that gives a full list of
    all rpm's installed and copy it to your common partition to save it.

    Use that list and compare it with v9 list (files rpmlist.txt.6 and rpmlist.txt.9) and install any one's that are missing that you NEED.


    Script rpmlist.sh :-

    --
    #!/bin/bash
    . /etc/lsb-release
    echo "DISTRIB_RELEASE=$DISTRIB_RELEASE"
    rpm -qa --qf %{NAME}\\n|sort>rpmlist.txt.$DISTRIB_RELEASE
    exit 0
    --

    Ignore the lines with '--' - just indicate the file content.

    Remember the contents of the folder /home/ will have to be transferred from
    the v6 partition to the v9 one is installing v9 on new partition. Other
    changes might need to be made such as adding any packages installed outside
    of MGA. (I have a lot of these as MGA does not have them or some they do
    are too out of date for my needs.

    Vincent
  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Friday, September 20, 2024 13:17:56
    On 2024-09-20 06:22, Daniel70 wrote:
    Daniel70 wrote on 20/9/24 8:12 pm:
    I'm getting reasonably serious about updating my current MGA V6 to MGA
    V9 .... and was just wondering how far off MGA V10 might be.

    Any clues, guesses??

    And, now, here I am answering my own question .......

    I had a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_10_Development (last edited a fortnight ago) and, it would seem, MGA V10 might be a
    Christmas/New Year Present for us.

    Hmmm!! Do I now bother upgrading to V9?? Can I use that as practice for
    the V10 upgrade?? ;-P

    Take careful note of the shaded box on that page: We "Release when
    ready!" The dates on that page are guidelines, a target to aim for, but
    are definitely NOT set in stone. They depend on developer progress, or,
    lack thereof.

    For example, the page says that the alpha is scheduled for release in
    three days. That's not going to happen. Before isos are released, they
    must be built and then tested for basic function by the QA team. There
    hasn't been so much as a hint of that happening yet.

    But even if it were to happen, upgrades that skip a version are NOT
    supported, and that would include an upgrade from Mageia 8 to Mageia 10. Mageia 8 has been EOL, not receiving security updates for many months.
    It is highly recommended that Mageia 8 users switch to Mageia 9 to get
    those security updates, some of which were considered critical.

    TJ

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  • From Daniel70@2:250/1 to All on Saturday, September 21, 2024 13:43:28
    TJ wrote on 20/9/24 10:17 pm:
    On 2024-09-20 06:22, Daniel70 wrote:
    Daniel70 wrote on 20/9/24 8:12 pm:
    I'm getting reasonably serious about updating my current MGA V6 to
    MGA V9 .... and was just wondering how far off MGA V10 might be.

    Any clues, guesses??

    And, now, here I am answering my own question .......

    I had a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_10_Development (last
    edited a fortnight ago) and, it would seem, MGA V10 might be a
    Christmas/New Year Present for us.

    Hmmm!! Do I now bother upgrading to V9?? Can I use that as practice
    for the V10 upgrade?? ;-P

    Take careful note of the shaded box on that page: We "Release when
    ready!" The dates on that page are guidelines, a target to aim for, but
    are definitely NOT set in stone. They depend on developer progress, or,
    lack thereof.

    I would expect nothing less from you guys, TJ ... It'll be ready when
    it's ready and not a moment sooner! ;-P

    For example, the page says that the alpha is scheduled for release in
    three days. That's not going to happen. Before isos are released, they
    must be built and then tested for basic function by the QA team. There hasn't been so much as a hint of that happening yet.

    Three days!! Plenty of time! To mis-quote someone .... "No rest for the helpful"

    But even if it were to happen, upgrades that skip a version are NOT supported, and that would include an upgrade from Mageia 8 to Mageia 10. Mageia 8 has been EOL, not receiving security updates for many months.
    It is highly recommended that Mageia 8 users switch to Mageia 9 to get
    those security updates, some of which were considered critical.

    TJ
    When I type 'upgrade', I'm meaning 'Using a newer version'. On this
    laptop, as well as Win-7, I have Mandriva 2007, MGA V4, MGA V6 and a
    Ubuntu V16, I think. Plus a shared Home partition.

    When I update to Mageia V9 or V10, I'll erase Mandriva 2007 and put the
    now OS on that partition.
    --
    Daniel

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