[arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

James Rayner iphitus at iphitus.org
Wed Mar 18 04:49:40 EDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Ali H. Caliskan
<ali.h.caliskan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Arch since few months and I enjoy using it everyday that
> goes by. However, during that time, while helping Arch users on the forum,
> I've encountered some issues concerning upgrades and broken packages. I
> personally think Arch is stable and well maintained compared to other big
> distros, but that's a rolling release stability, that lasts only few days or
> weeks. What I would like Arch developers is to extend the rolling release
> into a snapshot release of an entire list of officially maintained packages,
> comprising both core and extra branches. At least it would be a great way of
> using Arch for 5 to 6 moths and then upgrade to a next snapshot release. I'm
> not talking about stable releases, just a snapshot of a rolling state.
> Snapshot releases does also benefit the natural need of closing bugs. Not to
> mention, it does make it easy to maintain orphaned packages as well.

If your system is running fine, with no bugs or issues that concern
you, would you consider that stable? If so, have you ever experienced
that with Arch?

That's your snapshot. Just wait 6 months and -Syu, it works. Sometimes
I've got boxes that I forget to Syu, or can't because of bandwidth.
These days even my main machines only get a -Syu when I'm going to do
some developer work

James


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