[opensuse-factory] Update a non active factory installation
I'am using a 10.3 installation for working and a factory installation for playing. To be up to date , the first thing I have to do when booting factory, is to run the update. But often this lasts 2 hours and then there is no time to play with factory any more :-(. My idea is now, to run the update for factory in the background when running the 10.3 installation. The steps, I've done so far is mount the factory installation to /mnt , do a mount --bind /mnt/etc/zypp /etc/zypp to make zypper using the factory configuration and then running "zypper -R /mnt -t package" . That works for most packages , but there a some failures in post install scripts. Which additional steps are needed to provide the environment to get all post install scripts working ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Markus Koßmann wrote:
My idea is now, to run the update for factory in the background when running the 10.3 installation. The steps, I've done so far is mount the factory installation to /mnt , do a mount --bind /mnt/etc/zypp /etc/zypp to make zypper using the factory configuration and then running "zypper -R /mnt -t package" . That works for most packages , but there a some failures in post install scripts. Which additional steps are needed to provide the environment to get all post install scripts working ?
/dev, /sys, /proc missing? It would help if you posted some details about the errors. Michal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Markus Koßmann pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
I'am using a 10.3 installation for working and a factory installation for playing. To be up to date , the first thing I have to do when booting factory, is to run the update. But often this lasts 2 hours and then there is no time to play with factory any more :-(. My idea is now, to run the update for factory in the background when running the 10.3 installation.
Have you tried using zypper to do this? Boot to your factory install, have factory as the only repo and use zypper dup which will provide a distribution update to the running system and still allow you to "play". The exact steps are in the list archives. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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Ken Schneider
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Markus Koßmann
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Michal Marek