Possible solution for migration from Parabola to Arch

Fiction · 2015-09-13 18:28:37

Dear people from the Arch Forums,

I recently tried out Parabola out of curiosity. Once I got fed up with it, I had difficulty finding a guide for the reverse migration(https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration_from_Arch) process. This goal was similar to: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143080. Since necrobumping a three year old thread is considered a bad practice, I decided to create a new one. If this is is not the correct place to post this, please refer me to the correct location.

I think I just managed to migrate back and I felt like sharing the used method.

First I removed the your-freedom package

sudo pacman -Rns your-freedom

Then I generated a new mirrorlist using https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ and used it to replace /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. I continued by commenting out the libre part in the /etc/pacman.conf and then 'downgraded' to non-libre package using:

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -Suu

For me, this installed the faac package (that was removed for being non-free), possibly as a dependency.
I proceeded by removing the remaining libre stuff and installing the non-libre kernels:

sudo pacman -Rns parabola-keyring
sudo pacman -Scc
sudo pacman -S linux linux-headers linux-firmware linux-api-headers

I use linux-lts as well, so I had to replace the linux-libre-lts stuff (this would be non-standard):

sudo pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers

Since I modified execution rights of the /etc/grub.d files, I had to recreate it in order to properly generate, again non-standard:

sudo mv /etc/grub.d /etc/grub.d.bak
sudo pacman -S grub

Final I recreated the grub.cfg and rebooted:

sudo grub -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
systemctl reboot

Interestingly, I also noticed the possibility to access both libre packages and some of the non-libre stuff. I simply prepended the new mirrorlist above the parabola version and after a sudo pacman -Syy, I was able to install firefox, without migrating back completely (after removing your-freedom obviously). I did, however get a few warnings when performing the pacman -Syy command, mentioning the obvious absence of the libre repository in the first few mirrors.

Please correct me if I posted this in the wrong board, or made mistakes in this post.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-13 20:26:23

Partial upgrades are unsupported

Fiction · 2015-09-13 21:09:13

Interesting read, but it does this mean my entire post makes no sence, or (hopefully) just the text under the last code block?

Jristz · 2015-09-13 21:59:51

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Partial upgrades are unsupported

God one, but technicaly this is not a upgrade, so therefor the partial upgrade not aply... unles go from parabola to arch is concidering a downgrade.

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#1 2015-09-13 18:28:37

Possible solution for migration from Parabola to Arch

#2 2015-09-13 20:26:23

Re: Possible solution for migration from Parabola to Arch

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Re: Possible solution for migration from Parabola to Arch

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Re: Possible solution for migration from Parabola to Arch

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