On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:25:16 +0100, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Am 23.01.2013 11:10, schrieb arnaud gaboury: >> >>> Let me clarify a few things. >>> 1- I didn't correctly understand the post from Allan about toolchain, >>> thus >>> my brocken update when #pacman - S filesystem >>> >> >> Then why do you use testing? >> >> 2- As a newbye, >>> >> >> Then why do you use testing? >> > > Perhaps the OP needs a clarification. Arch Linux is a rolling release, you > usually get latest software versions for a regular Arch install. For my > taste sometimes the versions come to the repository too fast (at the moment > I take a rest from Arch Linux, but I still recommend to use it and will use > it in the future myself again). It's not comparable to testing of "release > distros", were for stable releases software sometimes is outdated for the > needs of some users and developers. > > When you are experienced using testing is helpful, to test new packages, > since this would help the community. As long as you're a novice, you very > unlikely will benefit from using testing. > > pacman -Syuu ;) > > Regards, > Ralf > Thank you Ralf, but this is my first ever serious issue when upgrading, so I will stick with dev enabled. Following Allan instructions, on Archiso, I #pacman -Qk and no missing files were returns. Then #mkinitcpio -p linux I was thereafter happy to log into my system, with no kernel panic ! I decided to reinstall all packages from the "broken" upgrade. Nevertheless, everything is not fine. Somme apps are broken, and do not know why. I guess it is because of the /usr/lib64 issue. For example, offlineimap and log are broken with no reasons, as they used to work perfectly. Allan, I think this upgrade is worth a news, as you mentioned it this morning. I am always scare each time I run #pacman -Syu, as I know it could be tricky. I usually pay very much attention, and this particular upgrade was my first real issue leaving me with a broken system. I may think breaking/fixing our system is the only way we learn. Thank you for your great work to the Arch community. Regards.
