On 5/11/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
2007/5/11, Dale Blount <dale@archlinux.org>:
Why don't we keep labeling release CDs as such but have pacman write the date to /etc/arch-release on successful -Su (or -Syu maybe)? It always did bother me that at times you could get a newer release than was actually available for download. This way we'd know exactly last time the system was updated.
Hm... sounds interesting... Looks like a decent idea to Arch. :-) Not so good to other distros with Pacman, that probably won't have Rolling Release System, but that can be solved.
I don't know how much I like the idea of modifying that file on every -Syu. A "pull" method sounds cleaner. For instance, pacman can keep track of the last time it did an -Syu (and actually installed something) somehow in /var/lib/pacman (/local/.lastupdate ? that'd match the other DBs) We could then have some other utility adjust the release file.... cron job? rc.sysinit?