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nstgc

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[solved] Is it safe to run a system upgrade from within arch-chroot?

I keep an a fallback installation of Arch in case my main one breaks and also to run regular, off-line tests. Additionally I have once or twice broken something and had to use arch-chroot to access pacman on my main installation.

However, I haven't really though much about whether this is safe or not. I looked at "Installing Arch from an Existing System" (or something) thinking I could find a use of arch-chroot and pacman, but I can't see one. Can this cause issues? If so, is there another option?

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Re: [solved] Is it safe to run a system upgrade from within arch-chroot?

That's exactly what it's for -- no issues.

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nstgc

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Re: [solved] Is it safe to run a system upgrade from within arch-chroot?

Thank you.

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Re: [solved] Is it safe to run a system upgrade from within arch-chroot?

Just make sure you have all of your partitions mounted. I could just see someone doing this but not having /boot mounted.

nstgc

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Re: [solved] Is it safe to run a system upgrade from within arch-chroot?

Just make sure you have all of your partitions mounted. I could just see someone doing this but not having /boot mounted.

I have seen someone do that -- me. Yeah, on my laptop my /boot is on a USB drive with my luks key file and I frequently run into problems as a result since boot has the noauto option. Apparently its bad to upgrade the kernel without /boot mounted...