polemicz Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 I just downoaded rc2 and noticed that on the ftp site (mirrors.usc.edu) that the 2006 main and contrib directories were up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppetto Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 Official, i don't need no stinkin official, the cooker is where it's at. Live life on the edge, come to the Dark Side! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 This most probably means that the Cooker repos are freezed, and anyone who does a Cooker netinstall right now will have 2006.0 in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 (edited) I had an LE2005 install on a test machine that I thought I'd try upgrading to what's currently in 2006 Cooker via an urpmi upgrade. Worked very nicely. I followed the procedures in this following thread, especially the posts by arctic, adamw, and ianw1974: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=25807 This was a fairly standard client machine with KDE, Gnome, and OpenOffice. About 600 packages were updated, not including the kernel upgrade. This probably wasn't necessary, but the first thing I did was update urpmi itself with: urpmi urpmi Then I resumed the upgrade with: urpmi --auto-select -v Only real urpmi problem was a conflict between kdebase-common and kdelibs-common, so that neither package would install. The conflict was due to: /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/nfs_mount.png (also 32x32, 48x48, and 64x64) To resolve this, I did: urpmi --allow-force kdelibs-common After the urpmi updates, I did the kernel update to the kernel-2.6.12-12mdk package. Then I executed the 'updatedb' and 'locate rpmnew' commands and resolved the differences, as described in the above thread. Had about a dozen rpmnew files to reconcile with the original config files; e.g., the shorewall rules, policy, interfaces, and zones files, and various other config files. Then I fixed up /etc/lilo.conf and executed 'lilo -v' to update the MBR with the new boot loader info. I also removed the old kernel with urpme. This wasn't really necessary but I went ahead and did it anyway since the LE2005 kernel is not supposed to work with a 2006 install. Periodically during the downloads, urpmi would hang so I just did a Ctrl-C and restarted the 'urpmi --auto-select -v' command and it just picked up from where it left off. No problems with using my existing /home from LE2005, so my configuration settings transferred with no problems so far. Caveats: I don't use this machine for audio or cd-writing or printing so that part of the upgrade is untested. All networking functionality works fine, including ssh into and out of the box. Several weeks ago, I did a new install of 2006 and this upgraded install seems to work as smoothly as the fresh install although it's on a less powerful machine so I can't be quantitative about things like boot-up time. Edited October 1, 2005 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 Apparently Cooker is not frozen right now, because an urpmi update I tried today installed some 2006.1 updates. So apparently this supersedes 2006.05. /etc/release shows: Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586 Does anyone know if these will be part of the official 2006 Release or is this now the start of a new development cycle in Cooker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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