Dear Massimo,<br><br>Well so far so good. I tried the chroot method but that didn't work. The upgrade assumes you are really running all service,etc and dies half way because you cannot start of stop certain services (There where some more complications but i have no clue what exactly went wrong).<br>
<br>So I booted a vm als mentioned in the FAQ and ran the upgrade again. Altought it fails the first time of you run it again the upgrade completes nicely. Unfortunatly is does break the netkit filesysem (probably because of the new libc/glib library) It does boot but not without a significant amount of errors. I added the bootlog of a session to this email, it probably makes more sence to you then to me ;)<br>
<br>I made a backup as adviced so no harm done :)<br><br>If its something that i can fix myself please let me know, I will try and upgrade again. If I have some spare time I am going to try and build my own filesystem (following the README ofcourse) but based on the new debian stable (lenny). Hopefully this gives me some insight on the inner works of netkit so I can go and try to debug the errors that popup after the upgrade.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>Adrian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Massimo Rimondini</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it" target="_blank">rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:24 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Netkit.users] Upgrade filesystem<br>To: Users of the Netkit Network Emulation System <<a href="mailto:netkit.users@list.dia.uniroma3.it" target="_blank">netkit.users@list.dia.uniroma3.it</a>><br>
<br><br>Dear Adrian,<br><br>upgrading with <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">apt-get upgrade</span> is possible and, in principle, not so dangerous. What you will likely lose is the customization of boot time services of virtual machines, while most of the other features should be preserved by the Debian package manager. For example, some files from Debian packages have been explicitly "diverted" to accommodate their MPLS-enabled counterparts compiled from source code, and the diversion should be kept during the upgrade.<br>
<br>Should some Netkit scripts be lost in the procedure, you can always get them back from the <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">fs-build/netkit-tweaks/filesystem-tweaks</span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font>directory of the Netkit filesystem package.<br>
<br>Of course, a backup is always advisable. :-)<br><br>Regards,<br>Massimo.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/4 Adrian van Dongen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrianvandongen@gmail.com" target="_blank">adrianvandongen@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>Fellow Netkit users,<br><br>I was wondering about the update/upgrade procedure of the netkit file system. Ik have read the FAQ about this ( <a href="http://wiki.netkit.org/index.php/FAQ#Frequently_Asked_Questions" target="_blank">http://wiki.netkit.org/index.php/FAQ#Frequently_Asked_Questions</a> ) and the README in de fs dir but it mainly talks about installingen/update a single package but not about an distro wide upgrade.<br>
<br>To my knowlegde you would normally run <i>apt-get update</i> to retrieve the latest list of packages and then run <i>apt-get upgrade</i> to upgrade all packages to the latest versions. In my case I want to update the entire filestystem (distro) to the latests version. So I follow the procedure for updating (mount en chroot into the directory, etc) and then run <i>apt-get upgrade</i> and it informs me that there are 180 (a small 150MB) upgrades ready to install.<br>
<br>Just before i pressed Y I considered that this could possibly break my netkit install. So my question to you is can I upgrade the filesystem like this without having serious concequences ?<br><br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888"><br>
Adrian.<br>
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