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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,360

If I do this upgrade will I break stuff

Yes, I know - I could just make a backup first, but I'm trying to save myself the headache.

Doing pacman -Syu resulted in an unresolved dependancy issue between catalyst and linux 3.3. To get around it I edited the catalyst PKGBUILD to remove the "linux<3.3" dependancy and reinstalled. Then run pacman -Syu again, which gives me:

dhcpcd-5.5.4-2  gnome-desktop-1:3.2.1-1  gnome-doc-utils-0.20.8-1
              kmod-7-1  linux-3.3-1  linux-headers-3.3-1  lirc-utils-1:0.9.0-13
              raul-0.8.0-2  virtualbox-archlinux-modules-4.1.10-2
              virtualbox-modules-4.1.10-2  vlc-2.0.1-1

A couple of things bother me now. Firstly, I usually use linux-ck, which hasn't been upgraded to 3.3 yet, and the virtualbox modules have 3.3 as a dependency. So, if I proceed with the upgrade am I going to:

Kill VirtualBox?
Kill Catalyst?

Not too sure where to go with this now.

TIA

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litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: If I do this upgrade will I break stuff

I would personally hold off the upgrade until all the dependencies are satisfied.

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

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Re: If I do this upgrade will I break stuff

That was my own gut feeling. Thanks for confirming

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,111

Re: If I do this upgrade will I break stuff

Looks like you are using [testing] repo ?

That increases the chances for breakage

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2012-03-19 20:15:07)

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,360

Re: If I do this upgrade will I break stuff

yes - I am using testing (I can usually fix it when it goes wrong). this was one of those rare occasions that I had the heads up stuff may break in advance, so figured I'd ask

I know my way around when stuff goes wrong (been a Linux user since Debian 3 back on my Amiga many years ago), so I'm not scared of breakages. I just find them an inconvenience.

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