i hope pacman stays like it is and doesn't mimic apt-get. At home i use Arch but our school uses Ubuntu. Pacman, for me, is much easier to use and figure out. Apparently my staff agrees and now they want me to install arch on their computers.
Cordially, S. Barret Dolph Taipei Taiwan On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:51, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote: > Just have to say, I upgraded to testing a little more than a week ago, > and had no problems at all. I then reconfigured pacman.conf and removed > testing, resulting in hundreds of messages to the effect of "local > version of package X is newer than the one on the server". Yesterday, > those messages disappeared as packages were moved to current/extra, and > I'm out of testing :) What I'm trying to say is that this would > completely destroy a debian installation, but not Arch. Arch does not > need a dist-upgrade since version numbers don't really matter in the > same way as debian's version numbers matter. > > Regards, > /K. > > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 11:10 +0200, Oscar wrote: > > Sounds like a good idea! > > I know that apt-get has something called dist-upgrade, that's supposed to > > be used when one upgrades a whole lot of packages (or while migrating > > from woody to sarge) - I'm not sure how it works tho. > > > > Is there any pacman feature wishlist? :) > > > > Oscar > > > > On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:32:20 +0200 > > > > RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would recommend splitting up the upgrade process using pacman. I > > > didn't and it really frakked up my system. Suddenly it started > > > complaining about too many open files, in which shadow and pam were > > > screwed, so I couldn't login anymore. > > > > > > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > > Hi due to the monster upgrade in the last hours be prepared for some > > > > things: > > > > > > > > Remember this points: > > > > devfs is removed from kernel26, get ready for udev. > > > > the /dev/discs entries will not work anymore on boot prompt. Please > > > > change it according to kernel26 install message. > > > > > > > > Sound issues: > > > > 2.6.13 introduces a new alsa update. If you have sound problems, > > > > please remove your alsa entries from /etc/modprobe.conf and rerun > > > > alsaconf. > > > > > > > > If your system hangs on boot after upgrade on loading modules > > > > (perhaps you use hotplug or lshwd), try to use "init s" on boot > > > > prompt to be able to repair your rc.conf and or modprobe.conf. > > > > > > > > Please be patient until the mirrors are fully synced. > > > > Today is bugsquashing day so join #arch-bugs, to help us to > > > > find/solve issues. > > > > > > > > greetings > > > > tpowa > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >--- > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > arch mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > arch mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > ___________________________________________________________ > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! > Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
