<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div name="messageBodySection"> <div dir="ltr">Hmm not sure exactly when the offline updates generator runs, but maybe the symlink could be made in /sysroot? Then depending on how early the generator runs, it might even still be on / if it's before the switchroot.</div> </div> <div name="messageSignatureSection"><br /> --<br /> Ryan (ライアン)<br /> Yoko Shimomura, ryo (supercell/EGOIST), Hiroyuki Sawano >> everyone else<br /> https://refi64.com/</div> <div name="messageReplySection">On Apr 25, 2019, 11:10 AM -0500, Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>, wrote:<br /> <blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br /> <br /> I use the offline updates feature<br /> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.offline-updates.html<br /> in fwupd to install some kinds of firmware. I've just found out this<br /> doesn't work on Fedora SilverBlue as / is immutable and of course<br /> creating the /system-update symlink fails.<br /> <br /> I'm using the offline update mode rather than updating "live" as I'm<br /> updating the keyboard controller itself, which means the keyboard (and<br /> power button!) is disabled and various things like ACPI battery<br /> reporting also get upset for the 30 seconds of flashing. I'm stuck for<br /> ideas. I suppose I could write a new boot entry (BLS?) that has a new<br /> kernel command line argument set to go into system-update.target (and<br /> patch src/system-update-generator/system-update-generator.c) although<br /> I don't think BLS has the concept of a "oneshot" entry that would<br /> delete after running it once.<br /> <br /> All ideas welcome, thanks.<br /> <br /> Richard<br /> _______________________________________________<br /> systemd-devel mailing list<br /> systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org<br /> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</blockquote> </div> </body> </html>