On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:31:00PM -0500, Mario Aguilera wrote:
> >>Maybe I need a little clarification of what Live Upgrade does. I've
> >>gotten a lot of response of what I would call installer utilities but
> >>not a Live Upgrade (if I'm wrong please point it out to me). What Live
> >>Upgrade does under solaris is it creates a complete alternate boot .....
>
> I wrote a bunch of alternatives, but the reply got rejected cause it was too
> long aparently. To make things simple: no, there isn't anything out there
> like Live Upgrade for any linux distribution AFAIK.
>
> Alternatives: Disk image + your favorite updater.. that way you just swap
> the drive if something goes wrong and bingo.
RPM has built in support for this sort of thing,
so it SHOULD work, but I've never know it to be
an advertised way of doing things so you never know.
..This is from the man page of rpm:
--root <dir>
Use the system rooted at <dir> for all
operations. Note that this means the database
will be read or modified under <dir> and any
pre or post scripts are run after a chroot()
to <dir>.
Matt
