[arch-general] how to upgrade 2017 server ?

[Chris Billington]

Pacman static will likely help, but you'll need to actually install it and
use it, i.e.:

sudo pacman -S pacman-static
sudo pacman-static -Syu

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 1:57 PM Shadrock Uhuru via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> i have a server that has not been booted since 2017,
> i tried upgrading with pacman -Syu,
> i have post the screen output at http://paste.openstack.org/show/788264/
> i thought adding Eli Schwartz' personal repository to  pacman.conf
> would have allowed the upgrade with his Binary builds of pacman-static.
> is my problem still to do with the xz to zstd change or something
> different ?
>
> shadrock
>