Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Apparently I have killed a working nfsroot by naively running "apt-get upgrade". What's the canonical way to keep a nfsroot updated? Would it be sufficient to "hold" the dracut* packages so their postinst scripts don't fail? Thanks, S -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Insti

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 15:51:06 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Apparently I have killed a working nfsroot by naively running "apt-get > upgrade". > What's the canonical way to keep a nfsroot updated? Would it be sufficient > to "hold" the dracut* packages so their postinst scripts don't fail? T

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:51:06 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > What's the canonical way to keep a nfsroot updated? Would it be sufficient > to "hold" the dracut* packages so their postinst scripts don't fail? I always rebuild my nfsroot. If you save the base.tar.xz before calli

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:05:04 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > from scratch. I'm running into Debian bug #830229 now (jessie/koeln, 044+109-1). > This did happen before as well (044+105-2) but I didn't notice, and stretch > seems to be unaffected (so this may actually be

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 16:08:57 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:05:04 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > from scratch. I'm running into Debian bug #830229 now (jessie/koeln, > 044+109-1). > > This did happen before as well (044+105-2) but I didn't notic

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:13:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > I found that you have created a backport for jessie but don't distribute that via > jessie/koeln? > You might tweak the dracut.maintscript (if it's required at all) ... Because jessie/koeln already includes the

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-07 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 17:17:44 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:13:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > I found that you have created a backport for jessie but don't > distribute that via > > jessie/koeln? > > You might tweak the dracut.maintscript

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:10:20 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Identical in what sense? The content is identical, only the version numers are different. > Also, one may want to add [trusted=yes] to the fai-project.org apt line... (is this already in > the manual?) No. T