On 04/10/10 01:36, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
if you don't mind running old versions of software... which I do...
I take it that you don't feel that "pacman -Syu" or if applicable
something like "yaourt -Syu –aur" Will bring your Arch system as fully
up to date as installing the latest Ubunt
It would appear that on Apr 8, Isaac Dupree did say:
> On 04/08/10 07:21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> > My take on it is that while it's always a good idea to be using a
> > current install medium, with Arch it only matters that your system is
> > able to become current via update. The releas
On 04/08/10 07:21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
My take on it is that while it's always a good idea to be using a
current install medium, with Arch it only matters that your system is
able to become current via update. The release of a new install set in
itself should never be a reason to reinst
It would appear that on Apr 8, Lukáš Jirkovský did say:
> Hi David,
> > It doesn't matter whether you use the
> > latest install set or the one from 3 'releases' back, after the first
> > update,
> > you will have the exact same, current Arch Linux we all have. It is the
> > smartest
> > way to
Hi David,
> It doesn't matter whether you use the
> latest install set or the one from 3 'releases' back, after the first update,
> you will have the exact same, current Arch Linux we all have. It is the
> smartest
> way to do a Linux distribution -- hands down.
I don't agree with you. For 99 % (
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:51:54PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:44:22 -0500, "David C. Rankin"
> wrote:
> > ... It doesn't matter whether you use
> > the
> > latest install set or the one from 3 'releases' back, after the first
> > update,
> > you will have the exact same
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:45:41 -0500, "David C. Rankin"
wrote:
> I missed that completely in my train of thought. But without the change
in
> package compression it would still hold true. Prior to the xz
compression
> change, I had had no problems using the 2/09 install media even after
the
>
On 04/07/2010 12:51 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>
> It's not entirely true. You always should install using the latest iso and
> it is also important to release new isos regularly. Due to our continuous
> updates and changes old isos and especially netinstall are broken. For
> example you cannot run
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 12:44 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
>
> ( if the other distros were 1/2 as smart as Arch, they would all be using a
> rolling-release model... )
>
>
Not true. If you want a distro that "just works", you need to really
test a lot before you change a version of the package
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:44:22 -0500, "David C. Rankin"
wrote:
> ... It doesn't matter whether you use
> the
> latest install set or the one from 3 'releases' back, after the first
> update,
> you will have the exact same, current Arch Linux we all have.
It's not entirely true. You always should i
On 04/03/2010 04:59 PM, Keith Hinton wrote:
> Hi,
> First of all, if anyone is curious as to why I have posted to the
> Arch-General mailing list, I'm mainly doing this, in case any of the
> Arch Release team is actually hanging out on this list.
> I was curious, seeing as the last Arch Linux relea
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 09:23:31AM +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
> You still need some install CD/Flash/whatewer to do the initial
> install and the current one is rather old. I had a lot of headache
> caused by the old installer, because I need kernel >=2.6.31 (IIRC
> installer contains 2.6.29 or
"release team" currently that means me.
yes, i'm working on new images.
see:
http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2010-March/thread.html
progress is rather slow, but there is not so much work anymore, so
they'll come..
Dieter
>> You still need some install CD/Flash/whatewer to do the initial
>> install and the current one is rather old. I had a lot of headache
>> caused by the old installer, because I need kernel >=2.6.31 (IIRC
>> installer contains 2.6.29 or 2.6.30) to install Arch on my notebook.
> archboot isos conta
Am Sonntag 04 April 2010 schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský:
> On 4 April 2010 00:01, wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:59:18PM -0400, Keith Hinton wrote:
> >> First of all, if anyone is curious as to why I have posted to the
> >> Arch-General mailing list, I'm mainly doing this, in case any of the
> >>
On 4 April 2010 00:01, wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:59:18PM -0400, Keith Hinton wrote:
>
>> First of all, if anyone is curious as to why I have posted to the
>> Arch-General mailing list, I'm mainly doing this, in case any of the
>> Arch Release team is actually hanging out on this list.
>
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:59:18PM -0400, Keith Hinton wrote:
> First of all, if anyone is curious as to why I have posted to the
> Arch-General mailing list, I'm mainly doing this, in case any of the
> Arch Release team is actually hanging out on this list.
> I was curious, seeing as the last Arc
Hi,
First of all, if anyone is curious as to why I have posted to the
Arch-General mailing list, I'm mainly doing this, in case any of the
Arch Release team is actually hanging out on this list.
I was curious, seeing as the last Arch Linux release was in August of
last year, if there will be one fo
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