[arch-general] In defense of pacman.static

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 08/06/2009 03:01 AM, Piyush P Kurur wrote:
> So I hit pacman -Syu on eeepc and it first asked to install the
> new pacman version. I went ahead and then with the new pacman
> I had a problem. It would just not run as a shared library 
> was missing. I was stuck. One way was to reinstall the thing
> again, I hate this.

Another solution:  boot up the Arch install disk - which contains a 
working version of pacman - and reinstall the old pacman version back 
onto your hard disk.

HTH,

DR