Upgrade to Mageia 9 using dnf-system-upgrade

I tested an upgrade to Mageia 9 with dnf. The system had KDE Plasma and Gnome installed.
I had to invoke
After release the call would be with --releasever=9, of course. The upgrade itself started after
the upgrade counter stalled at [865/6103] lib64plymouth5. The transaction however continued and ended successfully. This is an irritating bug, but I would not try to reproduce it, and I do not expect that it would be resolved by Mageia.
You have to reconfigure the repos manually with
The result should look like
One has further to invoke
This was already mentioned elsewhere and also valid for urpmi.
Best regards,
Bequimão
NB: I intended to send this text to the Mageia mailing list, but it didn't work for me.
I had to invoke
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# dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=cauldron --allowerasing
After release the call would be with --releasever=9, of course. The upgrade itself started after
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# dnf system-upgrade reboot
the upgrade counter stalled at [865/6103] lib64plymouth5. The transaction however continued and ended successfully. This is an irritating bug, but I would not try to reproduce it, and I do not expect that it would be resolved by Mageia.
You have to reconfigure the repos manually with
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# dnf repo-manager --set-enabled ( or --set-disabled)
The result should look like
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# dnf repolist
repo id
repo name
cauldron-x86_64
Mageia Cauldron - x86_64
cauldron-x86_64-nonfree
Mageia Cauldron - x86_64 - Nonfree
cauldron-x86_64-tainted
Mageia Cauldron - x86_64 - Tainted
One has further to invoke
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# rpmdb --rebuilddb
This was already mentioned elsewhere and also valid for urpmi.
Best regards,
Bequimão
NB: I intended to send this text to the Mageia mailing list, but it didn't work for me.