Re: Need help; how to use apt/dpkg to upgrade mounted filesystem using chroot.
Hello,
I don't know about apt but if dpkg has an option "--root" that chroots
itself before it runs. For example
dpkg --root /unstable -i /path/to/some/file.deb
Drew
On Wed, 9 May 2001, John Foster wrote:
> Here is what I want to do; I have a dual boot system with partitions:
> /stable and /unstable. I want to mount /unstable to directory
> /stable/unstable after doing so I issue command;
> 'chroot /unstable apt-get update'
> 'chroot /unstable apt-get upgrade'
>
> What happens is that all of the proper files on /unstable are downloaded
> and cached in /unstable/var/cache/apt/archives...so far, so good. Then I
> get an error message saying
>
> E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne
> 10
>
> I tried doing 'cd /unstable' then 'chroot . bin/bash' and issueing all
> of the previous commands from within the shell. I got the same errors.
> I tried removing apt-listchanges, but I can not. Postremoval scripts
> fail.
> I think there must be some way to do what I want, but I have not been
> able to find any reference to this. One listmember suggested using dpkg
> but I was unable to get that to work. It will unpack the downloaded
> files, but will not configure them.
> Thanks.
> John
>
>
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