[SOLVED] 14.1 interrupted upgrade, how to resume?

Z038 · 12-15-2013, 08:47 PM

I started an upgrade from 14.0 to 14.1 on my laptop, following the instructions in UPGRADE.TXT as I usually do. I upgraded glibc-solibs, the package utility and related tools, then started the upgrade script to install all the packages:

Code:

    
#!/bin/sh
for dir in a ap d e f k kde l n t tcl x xap xfce y ; do
  ( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
done

I realized I'd forgotten something, so I hit ctrl-c to interrupt it. It was in the process of installing one of the aaa packages, I think it was aaa-base-14.1-i486-1, and I don't think it actually finished installing it.

When I was ready to resume, I ran the script again, and it said "Skipping package aaa_base-14.1-i486-1 (already installed)", and also the next three packages.

How can I tell if it really installed those first four packages. Even better, is there a way I can restart the upgrade from the beginning and reinstall those first few packages to make sure they are installed properly?

Richard Cranium · 12-15-2013, 08:53 PM

Code:

#!/bin/sh
for dir in a ap d e f k kde l n t tcl x xap xfce y ; do
  ( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall *.t?z )
done

Been there, done that, after running out of space in a partition.

Z038 · 12-15-2013, 09:00 PM

Thanks Richard! I'm guessing that --reinstall will make the upgrade process run a bit longer since there are probably a lot of packages in 14.1 that didn't change from 14.0. But I'll let it run overnight, so no problem.

I guess I could also just manually --reinstall those first few packages until I get to the one it was working on when I interrupted it the second time, then just do a normal upgrade from there. Should work?

Richard Cranium · 12-15-2013, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Z038

I guess I could also just manually --reinstall those first few packages until I get to the one it was working on when I interrupted it the second time, then just do a normal upgrade from there. Should work?

Yep, should work.

Z038 · 12-16-2013, 05:23 PM

It worked, Richard. Thanks again. I just used --reinstall on everything in the "a" directory, then continued with the normal upgrade for the rest of it.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
for dir in a ; do
  ( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall *.t?z )
done
for dir in ap d e f k kde l n t tcl x xap xfce y ; do
  ( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
done