Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (533 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi,

For years I have been doing "off-line" factory upgrades. I explain.

Let's assume that factory is in /dev/sda9, and the production system is in 
/dev/sda7. Instead of
booting factory, I boot the production system, which I continue using, and 
attempt to upgrade the
factory partition from the running stable system. I do it that way because it 
can take 10 hours to
run (slow internet), and days if it fails with repeated attempts and half 
upgraded system.

The procedure is this:




        mount  /other/
        mount --bind /proc /other/proc
        mount --bind /sys /other/sys
        mount --bind /dev /other/dev

        cat /other/etc/SuSE-release
        echo
        echo "   Copy paste the next line to activate prompt change:"
        echo
        echo "export PS1=$'\\[\E[1m\E[31m\\]Anor_chrooted_on_\\h:\\w # 
\\[\E(B\E[m\\]'"
        echo "export PBL_SKIP_BOOT_TEST=1"
        # http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover
        echo "export ZYPP_ARIA2C=1"
        echo "cd"
        echo


        chroot /other/ /bin/bash --login


Once I run that in an xterm, I can run "zypper up", then dup, etc. This I have 
done for several
versions... till 11.3, it does not work. This is what I get:

Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # zypper up
Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

Nothing to do.
Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ #


The file exists, but it doesn't work, not surprisingly.

Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # l /var/run/dbus/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 messagebus messagebus 4096 Apr 18 04:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x 26 root       root       4096 Apr 18 21:30 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root       root       4096 Apr 18 04:38 at_console/
srwxrwxrwx  1 root       root          0 Apr 18 03:45 system_bus_socket=


I wonder if I should bind that directory to the "host" equivalent directory? 
Would that work? Is it
dangerous?

I tried, and it appears to run:

Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # zypper up
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

Nothing to do.
Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ #


Well, the nothing to do is because M5 has the distribution repos, not the 
factory repos. I'll change
that and report.


- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith))
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