Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 21:32:20 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Timo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ter=E4s?= <timo.teras@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] x86_64 users: ATTENTION
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:51:30 +0300
Timo Ter=E4s <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:

> On 04/06/2011 05:34 PM, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > If you currently apk upgrade your x86_64 edge box it will break dut
> > to x86 libs will overwrite the x86_64 libs.
> >=20
> > We are investigating a proper solution. (as soon as i get my box
> > back up again)
> >=20
> > Sorry.
>=20
> This happens because even the old x86_64 apk-tools try to get the
> index from same place as x86 one.

I removed the APKINDEX.tar.gz -> x86/APKINDEX.tar.gz symlink so people
running x86_64 edge does not get broken system just by 'apk upgrade
-U'. This means that even x86 edge users will currently need to do the
manual wget upgrade.

Once we have the v2.2 branch we can add the compat symlink back.

> But this should not be a major problem as we don't have any release
> for x86_64, except the edge snapshots.

It is a major problem for all current x86_64 users since they have no
other option than edge. My box at work broke and it was tricky to fix.

> x86_64 should currently then:
>  wget
> http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/apk-tools-2.1.0_rc1-r0.=
apk
>  apk add apk-tools-2.1.0_rc1-r0.apk
>  apk update

FYI. At this point the /var/lib/apk/world should have moved
to /etc/apk/world and the rest of /var/lib/apk/* moved to /lib/apk/db

This means that from now on, you can no longer use any apk-tools-2.0
without first manually move those files back to where apk-tools expects
them.

>  apk upgrade

Currently also x86 needs to do it (but using proper apk-tools)

I would also recommend start with:
=20
 apk add -U busybox-static apk-tools-static

Then you can always run /bin/busybox.static in case you end up bad.
That said, the symlink that caused the chaos has been removed so you
should never end up with broken system now.


>=20
> Sorry about the breakage.

It happens. It's the price we pay for progress.

> - Timo

-nc


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