Hello, I don't know about apt but if dpkg has an option "--root" that chroots itself before it runs. For example
dpkg --root /unstable -i /path/to/some/file.deb Drew On Wed, 9 May 2001, John Foster wrote: > Here is what I want to do; I have a dual boot system with partitions: > /stable and /unstable. I want to mount /unstable to directory > /stable/unstable after doing so I issue command; > 'chroot /unstable apt-get update' > 'chroot /unstable apt-get upgrade' > > What happens is that all of the proper files on /unstable are downloaded > and cached in /unstable/var/cache/apt/archives...so far, so good. Then I > get an error message saying > > E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne > 10 > > I tried doing 'cd /unstable' then 'chroot . bin/bash' and issueing all > of the previous commands from within the shell. I got the same errors. > I tried removing apt-listchanges, but I can not. Postremoval scripts > fail. > I think there must be some way to do what I want, but I have not been > able to find any reference to this. One listmember suggested using dpkg > but I was unable to get that to work. It will unpack the downloaded > files, but will not configure them. > Thanks. > John > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
