Solve Update problems on RPi Piratebox 1.x.x

I have found some ways to fix problems with updates on the Raspberry Pi.
The first is the root partition is too small to do an update. pacman has a cache option that allows you to put the cache elsewhere. First I make a directory where I have some space. I am using a 16GB SD card, and it is set up to use as the upload file storage area.

cd /mnt/sdshare
sudo mkdir pacman

Then I use pacman to do an update:

sudo pacman -Syu --cache /mnt/sdshare/pacman

Recently this stopped working because of a package signature problem. I would be happy to hear anyone's explanation of why this happened. I found a solution:

sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm

Then update works.
Bobf



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2019 06:51AM by Matthias.

Hi,
thanks for the feedback.

Are you sure the issue is about disk space? With the last version I changed something on the image build, to make use of an disk-cache on the build machine. Maybe I broke accidentally something?!

Git Commit

But this is a good writeup, Am I allowed to put this to the wiki?

thanks,
best regards Matthias

Hi,
I'm pretty sure it was disk space, I was getting write errors.
Yes, you can put it on the wiki, thanks.
Bobf