[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:21:58AM +0100, hollunder wrote:

> Fons ... runs critical systems and had apparently bigger problems.

I should mention that while there have been some problems
I am in general very satisfied with Arch, the documentation
and the support. 

The really 'big' problem occured yesterday when installing
Latex instantly broke a lot of other packages, including
(but that I only discovered this morning) my desktop, and
for no good reason at all.

But then doing a full system upgrade (as advised on this list)
completely locked up the machine - frozen screen, dead capslock
led etc. No other choice but a power cycle, broken filesystems,
and hours of work repairing them and putting bits and pieces
back in place. I still have a about 700 files in lost+found,
most of them seem *.pyc and man pages, so probably no big
losses.

I'm facing a decision to change five 'critical' machines
in need of an upgrade to Arch or not. Over the last months
I've installed Arch on three less critical ones to get to
know the system. Up to yesterday the decision looked quite
clear, but today I'm having a hard time trying to ignore the
'cocky attitude' and keeping focused on technical arguments.
Which as you wrote have been lacking somewhat, with some
nice exceptions.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

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