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go4it

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Registered: 2006-10-03

Posts: 44

pacman -Suy upgraded my system to Voodoo 8.0

Hi, Yesterday, I ran pacman -Suy and I noticed after boot that Archlinux Voodoo 8.2 is running . Insn't this version is a Alpha release ? Why did pacman upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0 ?
I think that such an upgrade must be announce clearly at the beginning.
Thanks

hightower

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Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 182

Re: pacman -Suy upgraded my system to Voodoo 8.0

The installation cd is in alpha state. The system is as stable as ever. Please read:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=18063

hightower

go4it

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Registered: 2006-10-03

Posts: 44

Re: pacman -Suy upgraded my system to Voodoo 8.0

So, If some one wants 8.0 it is advised to install 0.7.2 and than to upgrade to 0.8.0 to avoid a Alpha release.

CavalierBob

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From: San Francisco Bay Area

Registered: 2006-07-20

Posts: 110

Re: pacman -Suy upgraded my system to Voodoo 8.0

Install 0.7.2 and then run a pacman -Syu. Install on another system from the 0.8.0 alpha ISO and run a pacman -Syu. Now compare the packages between the two installs, The packages versions will be the same. Same kernel, etc.

The 0.8.0 install ISO  IS alpha as it has improved hardware detection and other differences from the 0.7.2 ISO. But point number upgrades and 'alpha' or 'beta' have no real meaning in Arch, except from the install ISO point-of-view.

If it were me, I'd use the 0.8.0 alpha install ISO over 0.7.2. Then I don't have to mess around with any mkinitrd/mkinitcpio issues, etc. I haven't done a clean install with the 0.8.0 alpha ISO, but using it as a rescue CD (my own fault, not Arch's) has worked great.

Do go back and read at least the first post in the link hightower provided. Does a very nice job of explaining how the Arch rolling release system works.

Bob