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coldo

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From: Mkt Dpng, UK

Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 9

Will I need to reinstall 2007.5 Archlinux over my 0.8 Wombat install

This is proabably a very dumb question.

In order to benefit from all the new features and fixes in 2007.5 Duke, will I need to do a reinstall from an ISO or will running pacman -Syu automaticaly upgrade everything ?

Also, I blindly run pacman -Syu  every couple of days.  Is it safe to do this or do I need to be careful ?  If it does break something is it likely that it will be fixed again in a few days ?

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Will I need to reinstall 2007.5 Archlinux over my 0.8 Wombat install

absolutely no need to reinstall, thats the beauty of rolling releases.

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yes running -syu will break something sooner or later, just read install messages and you'll be fine.
and no waiting won't automatically fix things you need to do by yourself.

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bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 322

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Re: Will I need to reinstall 2007.5 Archlinux over my 0.8 Wombat install

I pacman -Syu every couple of days and as Mikko777 says just keep an eye on warning messages and you should have no major problems, If a problem does pop up it's usually very easy to fix with all the clever people on this forum and what better way to learn.

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pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Will I need to reinstall 2007.5 Archlinux over my 0.8 Wombat install

If it does break something is it likely that it will be fixed again in a few days ?

You should pay the main page www.archlinux.org a visit every now and then. They usually inform of big changes in advance.
Take the switch from initrd to mkinitcpio as an exmaple; If you hadn't noticed that, you would be stuck a grub all of a sudden, cause it required _you_ to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
A lot of people flooded the forums with threads that were in fact completely useless, had you checked the main page.

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