Hello! I had a few problems with "pacman -Syu" in the last time:
- on a small Server after a "pacman -Syu" the Server dosent boot up anymore (Kernel failure with sw-raid(?)): downgraded - on another Server with ISDN (Fritz Card) the ISDN Services (isdnlog, capisuite with fax and answering machine) dosent work anymore: downgraded - on a Thinkpad T43p (ATI Video Card) after a "pacman -Syu" the X-Server dosent work anymore: downgraded - on a Sony VAIO Laptop after a "pacman -Syu" the X-Server dosent work anymore: giving up, enough is enough. What i am trying to say is: i am more and more scared about "pacman -Syu" Should i leave the continous update process and stay with a release for a long time, breaking the rolling realease paradigm? Somebody mentioned, that "pacman -Syu" is even more dangerous, if it dosent run at least once a week. But what about security updates? And how can i know, that the next update of a packet i need works? I love ArchLinux because of it's simplicity AND the rolling release system - i switched here ALL machines to ArchLinux, but now i am a little bit frustrated, because all the broken updates happend the last few weeks. So heres is my decision: - no "pacman -Syu" will ever happen again, instead i do "pacman -Su" and "pacman -U <pkg>" for choosen packages and immeadiate test, to check that the update was OK. But that is far more work than just running "pacman -Syu", so heres is my question: - Are there any plans to provide only security updates with a proven quality? Thank you all very much Dirk _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
