I suggest chroot to the inactive partition and run rpm here (of course you should make rpms available from the chroot-ed environments) Valery. --- On Mon, 11/2/09, shruthi srinivasalu <shruthisrinivasalu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: shruthi srinivasalu <shruthisrinivasalu@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: rpm -U options > To: rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 1:06 PM > Hi, > I have a setup wherein I have configured my harddisk > into 2 partitions(say sda1 and sda2) each being imaged > with SLES10sp2 versions. Each of these partititons have a > corresponding boot partition which will be read by the MBR > to boot from. > > In such an environment, I am trying to use "rpm > -U" command to upgrade one of the partition(say sda2, > lets call it as inactive) from the other partition(say sda1, > lets call this active). Since each partition has its own > rpmdatabase, I used --relocate and --dbpath options along > with rpm -U command, something like: > rpm -U <rpm> --relocate <mount point of > sda2> --dbpath <mount point of > sda/var/lib/rpm> > > Although the command works(the inactive partiton gets > upgraded), I see that active partition's rpm files are > getting DELETED. > > This happens only when both the partitions are on the > same versions. If they are on different versions, I dont see > this issue. > Can anyone point me to the right set of upgrade > options to be used in this usecase? > > Thanks, > Shruthi > > Keep up with people you care about with > Yahoo! India Mail. Learn > how. > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
