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Re: Migrating from Manjaro

Reply #75 –
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
[extra]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

[community]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch
[/tt]

You just need generate a arch repo using mirrorlist generator then paste it in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch, then refresh your database.

After that run pacman -Qm and you will see many manjaro packages that become foreign pacakges (Inlucing manjaro kernels) . Replace them with packages coming from artix / arch repos

Another way of getting arch mirrors is to install archlinux-mirrorlist which provides arch repo in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch automatically. If the file were already existed prior to installing it, the file is saved as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch.pacnew

https://github.com/artix-linux/system/tree/testing/archlinux-mirrorlist

If I can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!

Re: Migrating from Manjaro

Reply #77 –
Quote from: thefallenrat – on
You just need generate a arch repo using mirrorlist generator then paste it in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch, then refresh your database.

After that run pacman -Qm and you will see many manjaro packages that become foreign pacakges (Inlucing manjaro kernels) . Replace them with packages coming from artix / arch repos

Another way of getting arch mirrors is to install archlinux-mirrorlist which provides arch repo in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch automatically. If the file were already existed prior to installing it, the file is saved as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch.pacnew

https://github.com/artix-linux/system/tree/testing/archlinux-mirrorlist



So essential, where we are now and today, forget about copying the manjaro pacman files as in the instructions (and my original question) and to just cut and past a mirror file from the generator?  pacman can't create that mirror list on the command line?
 

Re: Migrating from Manjaro

Reply #78 –
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
So essential, where we are now and today, forget about copying the manjaro pacman files as in the instructions (and my original question) and to just cut and past a mirror file from the generator?
Yes, that is if you want to switch your manjaro repo into arch repo

Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
pacman can't create that mirror list on the command line?

Sadly no, as pacman is just a package manager not a mirrorlist generator
If I can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!

Re: Migrating from Manjaro

Reply #79 –
The results from the mirror list all start with a #

see -


##
## Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
## Generated on 2017-09-21
##

## United States
#Server = http://mirrors.acm.wpi.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://mirrors.aggregate.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://ca.us.mirror.archlinux-br.org/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://il.us.mirror.archlinux-br.org/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://archlinux.surlyjake.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://arlm.tyzoid.com/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = https://arlm.tyzoid.com/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://mirror.as65535.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

~~~

etc

I am removing the comment lines?  They are not in the original manjaro list.

Re: Migrating from Manjaro

Reply #80 –
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
linux412-ndiswrapper linux412-tp_smapi

what is this?

Those are modules for the 4.12 linux kernel. ndiswrapper is for some wifis and tp_smapi is a thinkpad extention of features for the kernel.

Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
I am removing the comment lines?  They are not in the original manjaro list.

I am assuming you figured this out, but just in case you did not forget to mark this thread solved:

Yes, uncomment the server(s) you want from the countries you want and/or are closest to. The first uncommented server will be the first checked, then the next, then the next, in seqencial order of the uncommented servers listed.


Sorry for the delay, doing some catch up now.

Re: Migrating from Manjaro

Reply #81 –
Quote from: conky60 – on
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
No, I have a straight manjaro openrc system and I never migrated.  I've been busy all summer and just read the announcement on the Manjaro forum to migrate.

I migrated my Manjaro OpenRC KDE system by following the migration instructions outlined here: https://artix-linux.github.io/migrate/
I carefully read the instructions and proceeded with the migration. Everything went well. I used Manjaro "extra" and "community" repos for a couple weeks, but then I switched over to Arch "extra" and "community".
My system is not mission critical by any stretch of the imagination however, and I was not overly worried to encounter problems.
Your situation is decidedly different since it is an important production system.
There is likely not any "guaranteed safe" way for you to proceed. I am reluctant to advise you due to your system being so important to your production.
Hopefully @artoo or another dev can advise.

Best regards to you.


I don't really want to necro post this, but I was reading this as part of an answer to a different posting, and I would like to say, THANK YOU and, I really didn't understand how this was working at the time.  I understand much better now, although I think the categorization of the artix repos can be better defined today than they are.  It is one thing to has step by step instructions but without deeper understanding, one can get lost very quickly.

And to answer the question and the system, I have a non-profit, NYLXS and quite a number of impoverished but hard working folks work on our servers, which we offer for free, and it often falls on me to do do things on my own.  A minor set back for folks in these positions can be a big thing.  There are about 60 users active, and a hundred more either dead or gone on with their lives.  I try not to lose anyone's work, and to keep services up and running.

Reuvain

Re: Migrating from Manjaro

Reply #82 –
Quote from: fungalnet – on
Something doesn't sound right.  You have a server where 60 devs depend on, and you chose Manjaro-OpenRC, a very stable but "experimental" system supported by one person alone, fixing stuff for the rest of Manjaro at the same time.  And you are trying to do this on the fly, with no reboot.
Have you even started trying to do it and the instructions did not work or are you speculating there may be problems while doing so?
Even thoug I have not done it, it seems pretty straightforward and worked for at least half the people here.

By the ay, has anyone checked what the downloads for artix have been?  18000+/week, the third most popular linux distro on sourceforge.  Pretty scary for a small team of developers to all of a sudden have to deal with a tsunami.  There hasn't even been a formal announcement yet that Artix is out and what it is.




I have always tried to keep that in mind since it was posted.  When people get testy at the developers, it so annoys me.

This system has a very small band of dedicated developers and it has been rock solid.  It is not easy to tack hard against the wind and be successful.