I have upgraded a machine where /home was NFS-mounted, like this: - check that the / partition has space for the files that will populate /home/_sysupgrade - unmount /home - comment ut the /home line in /etc/fstab - upgrade with sysupgrade - restore the line in /etc/fstab - mount -a
All this could be done remote.
Note that I can log in to a user where the home
directory is not NFS-mounted, in our case
/local_home/<user>
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 03:01:18PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> The use case for this patch is that in our lab network we have NFS
> automounted /home/* directories, so using /home/_sysupgrade
> for sysupgrade does not work.
>
> With this patch it is easy to modify /usr/sbin/sysupgrade and change
> just the line SETSDIR=/home/_sysupgrade to point to some other local file
> system that is outside hier(7) for example /opt/_sysupgrade
> or /srv/_sysupgrade.
>
> Even using /var/_sysupgrade or /usr/_sysupgrade should work. As far as
> I can tell the sysupgrade directory only has to be on a local file system,
> and not get overwritten by the base system install.
>
> The change for mkdir -p ${SETSDIR} is to make the script more defensive about
> the result of mkdir, e.g in case the umask is wrong, or if the directory
> containing the sysupgrade directory has got the wrong group, etc.
>
>
> A follow-up to this patch, should it be accepted, could be to add an option
> -d SysupgradeDir, but I do not know if that would be considered as a too odd
> and error prone feature to merit an option. Or?
>
> The patch is on 6.6 stable.
>
> Index: usr.sbin/sysupgrade/sysupgrade.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/sysupgrade/sysupgrade.sh,v
> retrieving revision 1.25
> diff -u -u -r1.25 sysupgrade.sh
> --- usr.sbin/sysupgrade/sysupgrade.sh 28 Sep 2019 17:30:07 -0000 1.25
> +++ usr.sbin/sysupgrade/sysupgrade.sh 14 Nov 2019 13:27:34 -0000
> @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
> URL=${MIRROR}/${NEXT_VERSION}/${ARCH}/
> fi
>
> +[[ -e ${SETSDIR} ]] || mkdir -p ${SETSDIR}
> if [[ -e ${SETSDIR} ]]; then
> eval $(stat -s ${SETSDIR})
> [[ $st_uid -eq 0 ]] ||
> @@ -127,8 +128,6 @@
> ug_err "${SETSDIR} needs to be owned by root:wheel"
> [[ $st_mode -eq 040755 ]] ||
> ug_err "${SETSDIR} is not a directory with permissions 0755"
> -else
> - mkdir -p ${SETSDIR}
> fi
>
> cd ${SETSDIR}
> @@ -185,7 +184,7 @@
>
> cat <<__EOT >/auto_upgrade.conf
> Location of sets = disk
> -Pathname to the sets = /home/_sysupgrade/
> +Pathname to the sets = ${SETSDIR}/
> Set name(s) = done
> Directory does not contain SHA256.sig. Continue without verification = yes
> __EOT
> @@ -193,7 +192,7 @@
> if ! ${KEEP}; then
> CLEAN=$(echo SHA256 ${SETS} | sed -e 's/ /,/g')
> cat <<__EOT > /etc/rc.firsttime
> -rm -f /home/_sysupgrade/{${CLEAN}}
> +rm -f ${SETSDIR}/{${CLEAN}}
> __EOT
> fi
>
> Best regards
> --
> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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