Hi there, In order to allow a smooth upgrade to 2.2, we need some extensions to setup. That's mainly three things: - installing udev and friends - renaming pkgconfig to pkg-config - and removing devfsd there are probably more of each kind, but those are the general use cases. I made a patch (currently untested) which allows the above. It's meant to get the discussion going. If we settle for a different solution I'm perfectly fine with that. Here's the patch: http://jw.tks6.net/files/crux/setup-upgrade-config.diff It basically allows to ship an additional file which defines packages to be injected, packages to be removed, and packages to be renamed. My test file looks like this: ------- [http://jw.tks6.net/files/crux/setup-2.2.conf] # update from 2.0/2.1 to 2.2 UPGRADE_INJECT="udev pciutils libusb" UPGRADE_REMOVE="devfsd" UPGRADE_RENAME="pkgconfig:pkg-config x11:xorg" ------- The x11 renaming is just a test case, obviously. Currently, the script checks for the existence of /etc/setup.conf, and sources it if it's there. The upgrade cleanup is ran after the regular update procedure, and prints some information to stdout, telling the user what it just did. A couple of notes: - I couldn't test this yet, I'll do it later today when I get home; my goal is that you can update from a clean 2.1 install directly to 2.2, assuming that you use a proper kernel. - We should probably have that for 2.2-test1, since otherwise manual interaction is needed when updating from 2.1 (even if it's already udev enabled); this unfortunately means that we have to delay it - I'm not sure if it's ever nice to remove packages; maybe we should rather tell the user to remove them manually, so he/she can backup configuration files if that's wanted If someone has the time to check my patch and comment, that would be great, since as I said before I think we should have that on 2.2-test1. Additionally, here's a trivial patch to not search for contrib ports on the ISO anymore: http://jw.tks6.net/files/crux/setup-no-contrib.diff If there are no objections, I'll commit that this evening. Best regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net