Upgrading from Frugalware 1.5 to 1.6

The aim of this howto is to show how you can upgrade a Frugalware-1.5 (Mores) system to Frugalware-1.6 (Fermus).

The new release comes with an improved pacman-g2, you should install it first:

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.

We have switched our stock kernel to using an initrd by default now, but this only effects i686 and x86_64 for now. All other archs are unchanged. If you are running a fairly simple grub setup, you only need to run grubconfig after the complete upgrade. If not, then you need to add this line to your Frugalware menu entry in menu.lst. Here it is:

If you encounter problems with the new kernel, please file a bug report. But before you do, check if your root partition is /dev/sd* and not /dev/hd*. Try converting the /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* if you are having trouble.

If you had custom config in /etc/sysconfig/modules, these changes will not carry over upon upgrade to the new package that replaces it called kmod. It should be simple to fix by just copying the /etc/sysconfig/modules.pacsave to /etc/sysconfig/modules to overwrite it with the old config you were using prior to the upgrade. The command to use, as root, is below:

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

Done!