rpm -U options

[Valery Reznic]

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 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> From: shruthi srinivasalu <shruthisrinivasalu at yahoo.co.in>
> Subject: rpm -U options
> To: rpm-list at lists.rpm.org
> 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
> 
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