On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:25:16 +0100, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 23.01.2013 11:10, schrieb arnaud gaboury:
Let me clarify a few things. 1- I didn't correctly understand the post from Allan about toolchain, thus my brocken update when #pacman - S filesystem
Then why do you use testing?
2- As a newbye,
Then why do you use testing?
Perhaps the OP needs a clarification. Arch Linux is a rolling release, you usually get latest software versions for a regular Arch install. For my taste sometimes the versions come to the repository too fast (at the moment I take a rest from Arch Linux, but I still recommend to use it and will use it in the future myself again). It's not comparable to testing of "release distros", were for stable releases software sometimes is outdated for the needs of some users and developers.
When you are experienced using testing is helpful, to test new packages, since this would help the community. As long as you're a novice, you very unlikely will benefit from using testing.
pacman -Syuu ;)
Regards, Ralf
Thank you Ralf, but this is my first ever serious issue when upgrading, so I will stick with dev enabled. Following Allan instructions, on Archiso, I #pacman -Qk and no missing files were returns. Then #mkinitcpio -p linux I was thereafter happy to log into my system, with no kernel panic ! I decided to reinstall all packages from the "broken" upgrade. Nevertheless, everything is not fine. Somme apps are broken, and do not know why. I guess it is because of the /usr/lib64 issue. For example, offlineimap and log are broken with no reasons, as they used to work perfectly. Allan, I think this upgrade is worth a news, as you mentioned it this morning. I am always scare each time I run #pacman -Syu, as I know it could be tricky. I usually pay very much attention, and this particular upgrade was my first real issue leaving me with a broken system. I may think breaking/fixing our system is the only way we learn. Thank you for your great work to the Arch community. Regards.