Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb bardo:
Since I've already got a 32bit laptop, I was thinking of migrating my Core 2 Duo to arch64 (as a TU it would be really helpful for building new packages and helping the other packagers). Now, this desktop is my main system, so I'm not really happy with the idea of reinstalling and reconfiguring everything (given that, at this time, I have more than 1700 installed packages).
So here's the idea: is it crazy to dump the package list, boot from a cd, change my mirrors in x86_64, change pacman's installation root to my mounted disks, reinstall the world and then check for *.pac*? Is there any risk I can't see in doing this?
Thanks, Corrado
well i would recommend save the list of packages you have and don't format your /home partition, then start with new x86_64 else it's weird i think. I did it that way and works fine(hey installing arch works in 15 minutes doesn't it? ;) ). You could also save your existing 686 as a chroot if you have the space to safe it. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org