Arch Linux

soniX

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2004-01-23

Posts: 161

750mb -Suy, a reason to love arch

Its been a while since my last "pacman -Suy", and I was shocked to see I actually had 750 mb of upgrades waiting...
kernels, X, some "package A replaces package B questions".... (and being 750 mb -  alot of other packages)
I was looking forward to a couple of hours of "lets see if the wiki and the forum got some info on what went wrong"... but guess what...

pacman downloaded
pacman printet a message of what to change in my grub file
I changed the grub file
I rebooted
the machine came back up, and I logged in...
and guess what... nothing was broken... absolutely nothing...

like it says on the subject... "a reason to love arch"

kamituel

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-09-14

Posts: 47

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Re: 750mb -Suy, a reason to love arch

I'm new to Arch, but I've also noticed this. I installed it from full iso and I've to download something about 200MB after installation when I run 'pacman -Syu' and... everything is ok.
Pacman is upgrading system much better than i.ex. apt.

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LB06

Member

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 435

Re: 750mb -Suy, a reason to love arch

Don't forget that the reason the process is so smooth is not just pacman, but also the enormous efforts of package maintainers

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: 750mb -Suy, a reason to love arch

pacman downloaded
pacman printet a message of what to change in my grub file
I changed the grub file

We need more users like that.

You changed it even though the change is only recommended for 2.6.17, but necessary for 2.6.18. Most users won't eben notive that they HAVE to change it for 2.6.18 and have an unbootable system. But that is part of Arch philosophy: we don't automatically change config files.

johnisevil

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From: Hamilton, ON Canada

Registered: 2003-08-07

Posts: 221

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Re: 750mb -Suy, a reason to love arch

pkgname.install files are a wonderful thing.  Most people should pay attention when doing upgrades since I find that many of the questions asked on here are answered by messages given from .install files.  I'm all for helping people, but I can sympathize with the developers when answering certain questions become tiresome when the question could be answered simply by paying attention during package upgrades.