Upgrading from Frugalware 0.6 to 0.7

1. Preamble

The aim of this howto is to show how you can upgrade a Frugalware-0.6 (Terminus) system to Frugalware-0.7 (Sayshell).

2. libpacman

Terminus comes with a new package magement library, called libpacman. It is provided by the pacman-g2 package, so the first step is to install it:

# pacman-g2 -Sy pacman-g2

Note	Don't worry, this will upgrade glibc and the timezone database, too. This is expected.

3. The first reboot

You have now a newer glibc installed which is not binary compatible with the previous one. You need to reboot to continue the upgrade.

4. Removing obsolete packages

Some software has been removed from Sayshell, after the upgrade you can install their alternates. To remove them:

# pacman-g2 -Rd gst-plugins-bad-swfdec gst-plugins-bad-wavpack libgc

Note	Of course if you don't have these packages (which is not the default) you can skip this step.

5. Upgrading the system

Now it's time to upgrade the system itself:

# pacman-g2 -Su

You will be asked to replace a few packages automatically. The following ones are normal and you are expected to answer Y to these questions (or just hit ENTER):

: Starting local database upgrade...
:: Replace cvsup with frugalware/csup? [Y/n]
:: Replace frugalpkg with frugalware/gfpm? [Y/n]
:: Replace control-center with frugalware/gnome-control-center? [Y/n]
:: Replace libgksu2 with frugalware/libgksu? [Y/n]
:: Replace gaim with frugalware/pidgin? [Y/n]
:: Replace gaim-plugin-encryption with frugalware/pidgin-encryption? [Y/n]
:: Replace gaim-plugin-guifications with frugalware/pidgin-plugin-guifications? [Y/n]
:: Replace scrollkeeper with frugalware/rarian? [Y/n]
:: Replace util-linux with frugalware/util-linux-ng? [Y/n]
:: Replace x-cursors-industrial with frugalware/x-cursors-dmz? [Y/n]

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

6. Install replacement softwares

# pacman-g2 -S gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-good-wavpack libgc --noconfirm

Note	If you did not remove the equivalent of these packages before the upgrade, then you can skip this step.

7. amavis and munin

The upgrade of these packages are not fully automated. You have to read the documents located at /usr/share/doc/amavisd-new-2.5.2/README.Frugalware and /usr/share/doc/munin-1.2.5/README.Frugalware to complete the upgrade if you have these packages installed.

8. Device name changes

Intel users will have /dev/sd* devices rather than /dev/hd* ones. The reason is the following: It was not possible to boot the kernel on some machines without this change. See this bugreport for more details. So after upgrading, you need to:

Check if you have an Intel IDE controller using lspci |grep -i intel.*ide as root. If you got no result then probably you're not affected.
Edit /etc/fstab: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd.
Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: change all occurrences of /dev/hd to /dev/sd in the Frugalware entry.

9. The second reboot

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

Done!