Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 16, Isaac Dupree did say: I enjoyed the 6-month reinstalls... for a while. They reminded me how my system was set up ; to make backups ; etc. I've got a slight difficulty with that... I've been a multi-boot guy for a long time. It started because sometimes I

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 17 Mar 2010 16:01 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: So I'm guessing that these workarounds happen whenever a pacman -Syu leads to breaking something... (Which means that I probably should only do an pacman -Syu when A) I've got time to test all my stuff. AND B) I've got time to look

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-16 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 03/16/10 14:12, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 03/16/2010 01:58 PM, Thayer Williams wrote: Welcome aboard and glad you're getting things sorted out. Once you have used a rolling release distro, everything else just seems silly. Reinstall every six months? No thanks! I enjoyed the 6-month

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-16 Thread Robert Howard
I've done the ill fated -Syu right before a project deadline. Something in the update broke mdraid and my system wouldn't boot until I booted from livecd to redo the -Syu. I think maybe my mirror was syncing when I was updating and my packages were mismatched. Never update when facing a deadline.