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Redroar

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[SOLVED]Upgrade to Arch64?

I was wondering if it was possible to upgrade to Arch64 without a reinstall. Now, if the upgrade is going to be harder than a reinstall I won't do it - I have a separate /home, it's not like I'll lose much. But I was just thinking that if I replaced all instances of i686 in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with x86_64, then -Syu'ed, it may sort of fix itself up. I know I'd have to definitely change makepkg.conf, and a few other architecture-specific settings, but the very way Arch updates seems like it would be possible to do a full architecture switch.

I originally installed i686 because I didn't want to deal with the hassle of a 32-bit chroot for running Firefox with java, flash, etc...but I've read up on it a bit and it doesn't look that hard, so I was thinking of using my chip to it's fullest with Arch64.

Has anyone done this? Does anyone know if or why this will destroy my install? These are the things I want to know.

Last edited by Redroar (2008-06-03 01:49:40)

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shazeal

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade to Arch64?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ

bender02

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade to Arch64?

Reinstall is necessary/easiest solution. Just backup your /etc.

Redroar

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade to Arch64?

Thank you for the extremely fast replies. Reinstall is not that bad...I actually should be able to get it going pretty quickly, I think.

EDIT: I just saw that at the bottom of the Arch64 FAQ...I looked over it, but obviously not hard enough.

Last edited by Redroar (2008-06-03 01:50:33)

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade to Arch64?

This may be on benefit for you:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 04#p369404

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Redroar

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade to Arch64?

Many thanks for the wonderful script. This will make it much quicker to get all my packages back. Though I think that -Qqe would be a better option since it wouldn't 'double-install' dependencies very often. Plus, it would keep the 'explicitly installed' list intact, otherwise -Rs would be near useless because with the original script I think every single package will be installed explicitly.

But it is still a big time-saver, I won't have to go hunting down packages.

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fukawi2

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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade to Arch64?

You're probably correct - I threw that script together in Firefox while eating lunch, so there's probably lots of room for improvement

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