Legal partial update

hdhzero · 2012-05-02 00:21:36

I am really loving arch, but sometimes it gets me in trouble.

I've installed eclipse WTP (downloaded as tar from the official site) and when I try to create a JSF project it fails because
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is not set.

Google said that installing xulrunner was an option to fix the problem. I installed through

pacman -Sy xulrunner

It went ok, now eclipse complains about libffi.so.6. Here is installed libffi.so.5, so I updated using

pacman -Sy libffi

And then I couldn't open any application because everything in the system (except for eclipse) wants
libffi.so.5 instead of libffi.so.6

So here I am now, updating the entire system, praying to everything to go well

This is not the first time that because of a simple program I have to update the entire system =/
Is there a way to make a legal partial update or to keep to different versions of a library without having to update the entire system?
I know arch is a rolling release distro, but sometimes we need a program and it is boring to update the entire system just because
this program uses new stuff that is not in the system

Serious, guys. I am sad here thinking that I'll have to use windows just because I'm out of time to keep waiting for the update to finish.

jasonwryan · 2012-05-02 00:35:45

hdhzero wrote:

I know arch is a rolling release distro, but sometimes we need a program and it is boring to update the entire system just because
this program uses new stuff that is not in the system
Serious, guys. I am sad here thinking that I'll have to use windows just because I'm out of time to keep waiting for the update to finish.

You are free to run your system however you want. If you choose to do partial updates the expectation is you will be responsible for managing that - that's why that approach is unsupported.

If you are pursuing that method only "because it is boring to update the entire system," then I suspect that there is nothing that anyone else here can really help you with...

hdhzero · 2012-05-02 00:47:56

In the wiki they say

"will you make a presentation tomorrow? then update the system after the presentation"

The problem is when they ask you to create the presentation to the following day and to create the presentation
you need to update the entire system.

Trilby · 2012-05-02 00:50:36

Beyond echoing everything jasonwryan said, if you get in a habit of updating regularly, updates are quick.

It takes ~30 seconds for most of my updates even over a slow connection. But I update daily.

Edit: more concisely: try Debian.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-05-02 00:51:53)

Pres · 2012-05-02 00:51:41

Choose another distro? Instead of complaining, why not try out some of the other 200+ Linux distributions out there.

hdhzero · 2012-05-02 01:10:17

Ok, I've learned the lesson: update everyday

karol · 2012-05-02 01:41:47

Don't run 'pacman -Sy foo', use 'pacman -Syu' for updating and 'pacman -S foo' for installing new packages.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1072495

Karakurt · 2021-04-02 22:04:16

hdhzero wrote:

update everyday

Well, it's not that bad)
I update every week or two, and nothing went wrong so far.

V1del · 2021-04-02 22:14:49

Please don't necrobump 9 year old threads for an empty post.

Closing.

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Legal partial update

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