Upgrading from Frugalware 1.1 to 1.2

The aim of this howto is to show how you can upgrade a Frugalware-1.1 (Getorin) system to Frugalware-1.2 (Locris).

Locris comes with an improved pacman-g2, so the first step is to install it:

Now it’s time to upgrade the system itself:

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

If you are not using an Intel or a Radeon video card (kernel module names: i915 and readeon), then just skip this section.

KMS is enabled by default in Locris for Intel and Radeon cards.

KMS stands for Kernel-Mode Setting, more here.

If you upgrade and you just reboot, you will have a blank framebuffer, but once X comes up, you will have a working system. To avoid this situation you have to edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst and remove the vga=791 (or similar) kernel parameter from the kernel command line. That way you will have a similar framebuffer as before.

If you did not have a vga= line before (because you manually removed it) and now you are angry about having a framebuffer, you can add i915.modeset=0 to the kernel command line and you will no longer have a framebuffer.

We used to have all rules under /etc/udev/rules.d, but nowadays only the configfile-like rules (network interface naming, etc) ones are there, the rest lives under /lib/udev/rules.d. Because of this, we moved the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules file to /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules. It’s possible that the old /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules file is still there, if you have drm problems, please check if you need to remove it.

KDE has been upgraded from the old 3.x series to the new 4.x one. This is a major change, multiple parts of the Software Compilation has been completely rewritten, and as a result, sometimes the old configuration files are not parsed completely. So be warned, it’s expected that you need to re-configure a few of your favorite KDE applications before they are ready to work again.

We shipped the DHCP client daemon 3.x series in Getorin and now we updated to 5.x in Locris. This includes a major internal dhcpcd rework, but there should be no big incompatibility on the user side. (See here for a more detailed history.) Minor issues may appear, for example if you do not want dhcpcd touch your /etc/resolv.conf file, and you used the following directive in a netconfig profile:

now you need:

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

Done!