Upgrading from Frugalware 1.9 to 2.0

The aim of this howto is to show how you can upgrade a Frugalware-1.9 (Arcturus) system to Frugalware-2.0 (Rigel).

Some packages will not gracefully be removed because of strict dependencies. If you encounter a message such as this during a system upgrade:

Then you will need to perform this command for each of the removed packages:

<PACKAGES> must be replaced by the names of each of the removed packages. This must be done prior to the system upgrade.

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.

The caching example configuration we provide in the bind package is updated, and named.ca is renamed to named.root. If you build your real configuration on top of this example, make sure you update your named.conf.

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

Done!