Upgrading from Frugalware 1.4 to 1.5

The aim of this howto is to show how you can upgrade a Frugalware-1.4 (Nexon) system to Frugalware-1.5 (Mores).

The new release comes with an improved pacman-g2, which stores the available package versions in a compressed format. Upgrade pacman-g2 and use the new pacman-g2 to download the database in the new format:

The default init system is systemd on new installs. You need to manually replace it when you upgrade:

Splashy, the old boot splash implementation has been replaced with plymouth. Splashy could be disabled by the nosplashy kernel parameter. This has been changed, now a vanilla kernel command-line does not start a boot splash, and you need the splash kernel parameter to have plymouth on boot. Update /boot/grub/menu.lst accordingly.

The new release comes with a new version of samba. From this version the package does NOT contain mount.smb, smbmnt and smbmount binaries, so in the file /etc/fstab the smb filesystem type has to be changed to cifs.

Akonadi was build to use SQLite by default for any new user. Current config files for existing users will not be touched though. If you want you can manually change the config file: ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc.

Some software has been marked as obsolete in the new release. To remove them:

Now it’s time to upgrade the system itself:

You will be asked to replace some packages automatically. These are normal and you are expected to answer Y to these questions (or just hit ENTER).

After this, the list of to-be-upgraded packages is displayed. Just hit enter and wait. Make some tea, it can take a while. :-)

pacman-g2 does not touch configuration files in case you customized them. You should run

and update each configuration file based on the .pacnew version. Once you’re done with one, you should remove the .pacnew file.

Since the kernel is upgraded, too, you have to reboot your machine.

Done!