On 2020/11/09 04:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 09/11/2020 13.00, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
...as the payload compression changed, we have always been aware that no matter how long we will make the payload change, there will be some user takign n+1 days until they will update.
Of course! Though am making progress -- am able to build a copy of zstd from the source rpm, but the source rpm gets errors which I haven't sorted out yet. But at least I can install files via rpm2cpio. rpm2cpio worked before, but produced a zstd-compressed cpio archive. But now I can uncompress that with zstd -d and then work from the cpio archive.
She said the machine was current, then had hard disk trouble for two months. Then it failed to update.
---- Actually I said I was able to install rpm's from from the then current TW stream. However, looking at the rpm on my system shows an unreasonably old, non-tumbleweed version from 13.2. Not sure how that missed getting updated, but that's one cause.
RPM to support zstd payload, still is not lost: the TW instance cna be 'offline upgraded' (i.e. boot the NET install/DVD and pick 'upgrade' in the bootloader. This will use RPM on the DVD/NEt and allow to move to a current TW snapshot).
---- Well, yeah, basically like doing a reinstall over the old installation without formatting. I'm pretty sure that would result in a non-working (if even bootable) result. I'm in the middle of moving several partitions, and haven't really dealt with the problem of moving boot+root from 'd' to 'c' in lilo after I remove the old sys-drives.
This is one of the procedures I recommended. She has not commented back yet.
--- I'd rather not write over everything from my current install. I don't think it would correctly upgrade/update my config files
Anything else you're trying to do, is out of the supported scenarios,
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