On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Awesome- thanks for looking into this, Pierre. -Dan
