On 21/02/10 23:50, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 21.02.2010 08:47, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
2) Checkout the scripts into /arch or /arch-new (to be discussed)
You say you tested it, so I say /arch. Objections?
/arch-new gives a fallback if necessary. Fallbacks are good with db-scripts...
3) Check which packages need to be kept in gz format for a while.(is it just pacman, libarchive and xz-utils) and add PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.gz' into their PKGBUILDs
Disregard the bash part below (bash can be any older version).
|--pacman |--bash |--readline |--ncurses |--libarchive |--zlib |--bzip2 |--xz-utils |--bash |--acl |--attr |--openssl |--zlib |--perl |--gdbm |--db |--gcc-libs +--bash provides sh |--coreutils |--shadow |--pam |--db |--cracklib |--zlib |--pam |--acl |--gmp |--gcc-libs |--libcap |--attr +--bash provides sh |--expat |--libfetch |--openssl |--pacman-mirrorlist
The use of --as-needed means we do not need all these. So the list is somewhere between this and the one Pierre gave... has anyone got a really old system we can test this upgrade on? I suppose an old installer is enough. Allan