[arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o

Nilesh Govindarajan

18 Jun 2010 18 Jun '10

12:38 p.m.

I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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Angel Velásquez

18 Jun 18 Jun

12:40 p.m.

pacman -Syu On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

-- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

-- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

Nilesh Govindarajan

12:49 p.m.

On 06/18/2010 06:10 PM, Angel Velásquez wrote:

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pacman -Syu

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

-- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

In order to refresh the db, I ran pacman -Sy which gives this error: config: line 1: all directives must belong to a section config: line 1: all directives must belong to a section config: line 1: all directives must belong to a section :: Synchronizing package databases... failed to synchronize current failed to synchronize extra error: could not open sync database: current have you used --refresh yet? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Ionuț Bîru

12:44 p.m.

On 06/18/2010 03:38 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

you should ask them to get the latest openvz template: http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-min... http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-m... those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :) -- Ionuț

Nilesh Govindarajan

12:50 p.m.

On 06/18/2010 06:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote:

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On 06/18/2010 03:38 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

you should ask them to get the latest openvz template:

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-min...

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-m...

those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :)

I managed to get arch with them after a lot of push, anyway, leave that part. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Damjan Georgievski

2:43 p.m.

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

you should ask them to get the latest openvz template:

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-min... http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-m...

those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :)

is there anything OpenVZ specific or it will work under LXC too? -- damjan

Ionuț Bîru

2:45 p.m.

On 06/18/2010 05:43 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

you should ask them to get the latest openvz template:

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-min... http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-m...

those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :)

is there anything OpenVZ specific or it will work under LXC too?

no idea what LXC is. just try it -- Ionuț

Damjan Georgievski

2:52 p.m.

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you should ask them to get the latest openvz template:

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-min...

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-m...

those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :)

is there anything OpenVZ specific or it will work under LXC too?

no idea what LXC is.

LXC is the Linux Container Project, afaik a subset of OpenVZ that has been merged in the vanilla kernel.

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just try it

The problem is I'm still learning LXC so I was wondering if your templates are a good fit for that. I probably wont be able to solve any problems if they ocur. -- damjan

Nilesh Govindarajan

3:21 p.m.

On 06/18/2010 06:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote:

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On 06/18/2010 03:38 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

you should ask them to get the latest openvz template:

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-i686-min...

http://download.openvz.org/contrib/template/precreated/arch-2010.05-x86_64-m...

those are created by me and mostly because nobody cared for so many years :)

I notified them about these templates, they were happy and agreed to use it. :) :) :) -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho

1:07 p.m.

Well... there's a problem because the arch's package format has changed (from .pkg.tar.gz to .pkg.tar.xz)! Try yourself to install pacman's package manually (and his dependencies). It should work! Sorry about my english. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

-- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Thomas Bächler

1:26 p.m.

Am 18.06.2010 14:38, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan:

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I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ?

I don't think you can: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-June/017096.html

Nilesh Govindarajan

2:26 p.m.

Its over finally. Some tar -xf stuff, etc. made it possible :) Basically upgraded pacman and its deps directly from archlinux.org as someone suggested. Thanks to that one ! -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho

3:44 p.m.

Eh... someone like... me? :) On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Its over finally. Some tar -xf stuff, etc. made it possible :) Basically upgraded pacman and its deps directly from archlinux.org as someone suggested. Thanks to that one !

-- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Nilesh Govindarajan

3:53 p.m.

On 06/18/2010 09:14 PM, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote:

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Eh... someone like... me? :)

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Its over finally. Some tar -xf stuff, etc. made it possible :) Basically upgraded pacman and its deps directly from archlinux.org as someone suggested. Thanks to that one !

-- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Yeah man ! ;) -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Gaurish Sharma

4:45 p.m.

Hi, If I may ask, which VPS provider it is? Gaurish

Nilesh Govindarajan

5:44 p.m.

On 06/18/2010 10:15 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

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Hi, If I may ask, which VPS provider it is?

Gaurish

fsckvps.com This was the second VPS I am configuring for a friend. I have been using their UK service (link in my signature) for more than two years. They offer excellent quality service. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

Gaurish Sharma

19 Jun 19 Jun

6:37 a.m.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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On 06/18/2010 10:15 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

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Hi, If I may ask, which VPS provider it is?

Gaurish

fsckvps.com This was the second VPS I am configuring for a friend. I have been using their UK service (link in my signature) for more than two years. They offer excellent quality service.

Weren't they same ones who got hacked for weak password. Went on blaming it on software provider(HyperVM(. owner of software committed suicide because of this. then the original owner sold the vps company, that only to be resold again. now the original owner seems to be starting a new company. Quite Dramatic story...I would say Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

Nilesh Govindarajan

7:28 a.m.

On 06/19/2010 12:07 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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On 06/18/2010 10:15 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

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Hi, If I may ask, which VPS provider it is?

Gaurish

fsckvps.com This was the second VPS I am configuring for a friend. I have been using their UK service (link in my signature) for more than two years. They offer excellent quality service.

Weren't they same ones who got hacked for weak password. Went on blaming it on software provider(HyperVM(. owner of software committed suicide because of this.

then the original owner sold the vps company, that only to be resold again. now the original owner seems to be starting a new company.

Quite Dramatic story...I would say

Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

OMG I never knew about that suicide thing, but yes it is the same one, the HyperVM hacks. Then they withdrew Xen VPS and migrated everyone to KVM and OpenVZ. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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Angel Velásquez
Damjan Georgievski
Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho
Gaurish Sharma
Ionuț Bîru
Nilesh Govindarajan
Thomas Bächler