[arch-general] how to upgrade 2017 server ?

[Mr.Elendig]

On 11/01/2020 03:57, Shadrock Uhuru via arch-general 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

Personally I would backup the data/configuration, do a clean reinstall 
and then restore the data and update/port the configurations as needed.