On 2012-11-28 08:19 (GMT-0500) Anton Aylward composed:
Felix Miata said:
On 2012-11-27 12:27 (GMT-0500) Anton Aylward composed:
Mandriva has got to go. Its not being maintained aggressively. Mandriva 2012 Alpha came out in September, two months late.
Last I checked, Mageia still offered a direct upgrade path (via urpmi at least) from Mandriva. Mageia probably has most of Mandriva's community and active developers too.
Well that was fun! So you can do cross-distribution updates ... to a degree.
Mandriva to Mageia is a special case, because Mageia began as a fork of Mandriva created by developers who had been Mandriva developers. I suspect the key is use of the same package manager before and after, in this case, Urpmi. Because openSUSE provides Yum as an option, maybe to/from openSUSE and Fedora or CentOS could work.
I did an network "upgrade" to mag2. For the most part it went well...
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