Sounds like a good idea!
I know that apt-get has something called dist-upgrade, that's supposed to be 
used when one upgrades a whole lot of packages (or while migrating from woody 
to sarge) - I'm not sure how it works tho.

Is there any pacman feature wishlist? :)

Oscar

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:32:20 +0200
RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I would recommend splitting up the upgrade process using pacman. I 
> didn't and it really frakked up my system. Suddenly it started 
> complaining about too many open files, in which shadow and pam were 
> screwed, so I couldn't login anymore.
> 
> Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > Hi due to the monster upgrade in the last hours be prepared for some things:
> > 
> > Remember this points:
> > devfs is removed from kernel26, get ready for udev.
> > the /dev/discs entries will not work anymore on boot prompt. Please change 
> > it 
> > according to kernel26 install message.
> >  
> > Sound issues:
> > 2.6.13 introduces a new alsa update. If you have sound problems, please 
> > remove 
> > your alsa entries from /etc/modprobe.conf and rerun alsaconf.
> >  
> > If your system hangs on boot after upgrade on loading modules (perhaps you 
> > use 
> > hotplug or lshwd), try to use "init s" on boot prompt to be able to repair 
> > your rc.conf and or modprobe.conf.
> >  
> > Please be patient until the mirrors are fully synced.
> > Today is bugsquashing day so join #arch-bugs, to help us to find/solve 
> > issues.
> > 
> > greetings
> > tpowa
> > 
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