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RAH

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Registered: 2008-06-20

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[SOLVED] Rolling Releases

Hello,

Would I be correct in saying that by running pacman -Syu my entire installation is upgraded and therefore becomes the same as the latest 2008.06 build (if not newer)?

Thanks.

Last edited by RAH (2008-08-15 18:27:09)

mentallaxative

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-07-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Rolling Releases

Running -Syu brings in the latest packages from the repositories. The 2008.06 build is just a snapshot of the latest software at the time that cd was released.

The first post of this thread is relevant: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=18063

Rumor

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Rolling Releases

Yes, that is correct.

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mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Rolling Releases

Yep, the cd releases are pretty much just for installing and are snapshots of the repositories at the time they're released. I've only done pacman -Syu since I got my computer 16 months ago and there's plenty of people with installs older than that (there's a thread somewhere around where people were posting their installation dates)