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[Tim Squires <sourcemage AT cheekymail.net>]

The first try of a rebuild fell over when trying to access the device
for my root partition directly.... i.e.

/dev/ide/host0/disk0/part5  or something similar

and that device file is not available when running RH with the SM being
used via chroot.

I'm not sure why but I tried it again and it ran all the way through
without trying to access the deivce files.

The sorcery update command then started with 

<snip>
root@tims:/var/lib/sorcery# sorcery update
Error: /proc must be mounted
  To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
      /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
  In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
</snip>

full output below...

So it wants the /proc mounted that is not available when chrooted but
still runs through OK?  Should there be more to an update than the
output below?

Why is the output:

line 1068: /var/log/sorcery/activity: Is a directory

being seen any any cast, update or rebuild?

Has anyone enough spare time to answer all my questions or an I just
being a pain?

Thanks for any time you can spare an inquisitive soul.



Full output of update.....


root@tims:/var/lib/sorcery# sorcery update
Error: /proc must be mounted
  To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
      /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
  In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
--07:00:59-- 
http://codex.sourcemage.org/stable-grimoire/sorcery.tar.bz2
           => `sorcery.tar.bz2'
Resolving codex.sourcemage.org... done.
Connecting to codex.sourcemage.org[152.2.210.81]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 781,354 [application/x-tar]

100%[=================================================>] 781,354      
17.86K/s    ETA 00:00

utime(sorcery.tar.bz2): No such file or directory
07:01:42 (17.86 KB/s) - `sorcery.tar.bz2' saved [781354/781354]

mv: cannot stat `sorcery.tar.bz2': No such file or directory
--07:01:43--  http://www.smee.org/smgl/stable/sorcery.tar.bz2
           => `sorcery.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.smee.org... done.
Connecting to www.smee.org[195.184.244.187]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 781,354 [application/x-tar]

100%[=================================================>] 781,354      
22.84K/s    ETA 00:00

07:02:17 (22.84 KB/s) - `sorcery.tar.bz2' saved [781354/781354]

/usr/sbin/summon: line 1068: /var/log/sorcery/activity: Is a directory
/tmp/casting.6045.7697: line 1068: /var/log/sorcery/activity: Is a
directory






On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 07:46, Tim Squires wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I use my desktop all day to for Java development.  I've install a couple
> of other computers with SM and would like it on my main machine. 
> There's a spare ext3 partition of 20G's which now has Source Mage
> installed.
> 
> Can anyone see a problem with booting into my usual RH7.3 and running
> cast and sorcery commands chrooted to the Source Mage partition?
> 
> e.g.
> 
> mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
> chroot /mnt /bin/bash
> sorcery rebuild
> 
> It seems to be churning away quite happily in the background as I
> continue programming.  Just waiting for the rebuild to do something
> err... interesting to my stable (read boring) RedHat installation.
> 
> Ta,
> Tim.
> 
> 
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