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
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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 :-
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#!/bin/bash
. /etc/lsb-release
echo "DISTRIB_RELEASE=$DISTRIB_RELEASE"
rpm -qa --qf %{NAME}\\n|sort>rpmlist.txt.$DISTRIB_RELEASE
exit 0
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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are too out of date for my needs.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