Am Dienstag, 9. März 2010 22:39:57 schrieb Allan McRae: > So... are people happy with me compressing the upcoming toolchain > rebuild with xz? There are no versioned deps between pacman or any of > its deps and the toolchain. That means the initial upgrade to pacman > when upgrading a system will not be affected by this. If that ever > changes, I will switch back.
I just downloaded the 2008.06 iso and could successfully issue an -Syu. (I have now added pacman-mirrorlist to the packages that should be kept in gz format) I also tried a iso from 2007 but that kernel glibc wasn't compatible. But such an old setup could only be updated from a newer live cd anyway. In other words: the current solutions ensures that there is still a smooth update path for systems that haven't seen an -Syu for about two years. I really don't think we should worry here. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
