Just have to say, I upgraded to testing a little more than a week ago,
and had no problems at all. I then reconfigured pacman.conf and removed
testing, resulting in hundreds of messages to the effect of "local
version of package X is newer than the one on the server". Yesterday,
those messages disappeared as packages were moved to current/extra, and
I'm out of testing :)  What I'm trying to say is that this would
completely destroy a debian installation, but not Arch. Arch does not
need a dist-upgrade since version numbers don't really matter in the
same way as debian's version numbers matter.

Regards,
/K. 

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 11:10 +0200, Oscar wrote:
> 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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