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dale77

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How best to perform a big sysupdate on a year old system?

Hello,

It has been a while since I booted arch, which I need to upgrade for some recent dev libraries.

Linux gordon 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 8 22:01:01 UTC 2008

pacman -Syu gives me the option of a 1.7Gb download.

What is the best approach to still have a working system after the system upgrade? Any tips?

Thanks!

Dale

dale77

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Re: How best to perform a big sysupdate on a year old system?

Ah, never mind. I leapt in and followed my nose with pacman -Syu.

I'm live to the new KDE 4.3 desktop. Nice job arch devs.

jolinfire

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Registered: 2007-12-21

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Re: How best to perform a big sysupdate on a year old system?

1 year without updates ? Wow ! I can't stay a week without updates... Ok, I'm using testing, but...

Gen2ly

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Re: How best to perform a big sysupdate on a year old system?

Hmm, dale77 though things may look ok now, I'd be on the look out for gremlins.  At the very least I'd look up the news for the last year and see if anything needs to be done manually.  Best bet would to be a full reinstall but some like to live dangerously too .

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vajorie

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Re: How best to perform a big sysupdate on a year old system?

Hmm, dale77 though things may look ok now, I'd be on the look out for gremlins.  At the very least I'd look up the news for the last year and see if anything needs to be done manually.  Best bet would to be a full reinstall but some like to live dangerously too .

going thru previous news items is a good idea, but I don't see the point of a reinstall. we all did what OP wants to do, even though we did it gradually. the resulting system in both cases will be the same.

ngoonee

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Re: How best to perform a big sysupdate on a year old system?

Hmm, dale77 though things may look ok now, I'd be on the look out for gremlins.  At the very least I'd look up the news for the last year and see if anything needs to be done manually.  Best bet would to be a full reinstall but some like to live dangerously too .

going thru previous news items is a good idea, but I don't see the point of a reinstall. we all did what OP wants to do, even though we did it gradually. the resulting system in both cases will be the same.

Not exactly, with a 1.7 GB update the likelihood of missing important announcements on the package (stuff like PLEASE UPDATE THIS CONFIG FILE MANUALLY!! or YOU WILL NEED TO MOVE THIS FILE TO ITS NEW LOCATION on the .install files).

To the OP, perhaps you'd want to check your pacman log for messages as the above.

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1LordAnubis

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Re: How best to perform a big sysupdate on a year old system?

Yeah... offhand I remember things like the modprobe.conf location changing, along with lots of Xorg possible changes, and hal behavior concerning removable media.
The longest I've gone is about 4-5 months... at which point a new wireless driver was available

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