Posted 04/13/2008 - 19:59 by Dirk
A few days ago Mandriva Linux delivered it’s spring update. So I waited two more days until the fresh bytes arrived at german mirrors.
So I decided that Saturday would be a good day to download the 1700+ new packages. All I did was to replace 2008.0 to 2008.1 in all repository URLs (main, contrib and non-free) and run the MandrivaUpdate program. It took about 6 hours on my aged Thinkpad T41 using a 2MBit DSL line to fetch and install the update, but it worked (almost) seamless. In the middle of the operation I had to install libldap-2.4 manually and I deinstalled some lib*-devel packages to prevent package collisions.
After the next reboot I had a shiny polished desktop. Great work, Mandriva staff!
Some post-upgrade works had to be done: The kernel module packages were not updated automaticly. But that was easily to manage. The madwifi driver got upgraded flawlessly when I tried to activate the WLAN adapter for the first time. And the vbox-modules (for VirtualBox) was painless as well. I just selected the packages with kernel version number ’2.6.22’ and ’2.6.24’ fom the list of all installed packages and user rpmdrake to install their updated version:
rpm -qa| grep -E '2\.6\.2(2|4)' | sort
Afte that I deinstalled all packages with ’2.6.22’ in their name. Done.
