Felix Miata said the following on 11/27/2012 05:37 PM:
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. I did an network "upgrade" to mag2. For the most part it went well; a few things were blocked because of a bum dot.rpm and some instances where rpm thought the mandriva version was a later version than the mag2. Nothing insurmountable and certainly less than some upgrades I had years ago with earlier versions of openSuse. I'm going to try two things now. The first is to download the DVD so I can recover if I really hose things :-) The second is to try one of the openSuse repositories, something like VLC Who knows ....? -- "What we have learned from others becomes our own by reflection". -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org