I was hoping when I upgraded to 8.2 from 8.1 that the process would
have gotten more painless than it was the last time I tried it.
It may be better than it used to be (at least things booted with no
hassle), but I've still been working most of the last two days on
things that don't work any more. Here's what I can remember doing; I
may well be forgetting things that were minor for me but might be real
hassles for someone with a different experience of LINUX:
When I configured the mouse, this time there was an option to
say there was a wheel, which I have. I took this, and the
mouse configuration was completely unusable until I finally
managed to boot without X and run the mouse configuration
program.
For some reason the upgrade program didn't recognize my
downloaded disks, so nothing that's on the ext and supp disks
got upgraded, unless I specifically asked for it. This is
probably why I haven't had to fiddle with xemacs the way I
have on the last two upgrades. I think urpmi also wasn't
recognizing the disks, so I added them as new sources.
The pysol version shipped is incompatible with the python
version shipped, so I had to download the pysol that works
with python 2.2 from the pysol site.
The Group that sends the mail for the mailman mailing lists
had changed to a gid that isn't defined. So I had to
reconfigure mailman. I think this is probably a bug.
I had to put back the apache commonhttpd.conf from 8.1, as I
couldn't make the one with 8.2 work for my system, and I can't
find any documentation of what changed.
On the plus side, I do seem to be able to print out of the box on my
HP Laserjet 5000, without the giant black vertical lines and the wrong
paper size messages I got on 8.1.
Is there any chance that this kind of thing could be documented
somewhere? I know there's this list, but it's a pretty high-volume
list, and I don't always find searching the mandrake.com site really
helpful.
If there's some documentation of this sort that I've missed, could it
be pointed to more prominently?
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