Simple upgrade path needed

I tried to update 2010.2 to Beta2 just to end up reinstalling Beta2 from scratch. The problem in short was that Mageia, as well as Mandriva, lacks simple upgrade process or instructions which upgrade ONLY THE ESSENTIAL libraries and tools.
CentOS does it using following:
After this the essential libraries are upgraded and system is still operational. So my suggestion: find a way to do this. Urpmi currently does this poorly and tries to upgrade everything with almost one pass.
CentOS does it using following:
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yum clean all
yum update glibc\*
yum update yum\* rpm\* pyth\*
yum clean all
yum update mkinitrd nash
yum update selinux\*
yum update
shutdown -r now
After this the essential libraries are upgraded and system is still operational. So my suggestion: find a way to do this. Urpmi currently does this poorly and tries to upgrade everything with almost one pass.