[SOLVED] preserving stable system

Hello guys and girls
If I wanted to keep the Arch stable and not to do any upgrades of crucial system components (like e.g. kernel etc.), which packages should I put into IgnorePkg list? Can you provide me with the list of ALL packages to put there in order to preserve my system stable?
By the way, I'm using Arch i686 and xf86-video-ati package...
Thank you
Last edited by ancient_archer (2010-05-22 09:43:00)

Thanks to all for their great opinions.
I realized that ignoring some packages is not a good way to make the system stable. Therefore, I found the solution: to use kernel26-lts and for other things, to do updates as frequently as possible but at the same time to read mailing lists about packages as kishd suggested.
And, I wasn't aware of pacman -Sc option as kokoko3k suggested (thanks).
As for the incentives why I started to think about something like this was that for the last 2 weeks, I was having random X restarts and I was not aware of any keyboard combination which would deliberately do that. It was really ANNOYING making some paper for school or doing some other work when (probably) X restarted randomly! My intention was not to make the system super-stable (the main reason why I'm using Arch is rolling release and I'm willing to tolerate minor program bugs), but X restarts were really terrible.
But I realised that I could try lts kernel and till now, no crash (hope it'll stay like this).
Thanks again to everybody for their opinions.
Last edited by ancient_archer (2010-05-22 09:41:44)

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Last edited by senjin (2012-09-15 19:34:26)

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Solved\ Random lockups/system freezes AMD 6850 crossfire mode

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[kinda solved] All the system is down and I need my files badly!

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Last edited by Włóczymyśl (2011-06-16 11:28:26)

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[SOLVED] Pacman leaving system in inconsistent state

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Last edited by javex (2014-03-17 16:52:54)

Sorry for my late reply. Since the problem had to be fixed fast, I just reinstalled arch. I created a backup and so it was much quicker to reinstall than to unwrap this issue.
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Last edited by ktkhuong (2010-08-08 08:27:41)

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HalosGhost wrote:
I'm glad you got it worked out. Please add [Solved] to the beginning of your thread title.
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Was still busy doing that. (on my phone, so I am not so quick as on arch Linux of course!)

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If you typed in 'km' and chose your locale before you ran the /arch/setup command to start the installation, it should automatically enter in the locale you selected earlier (if you press yes in the dialog box that pops up).
Confirm this as that's what happended in this location on 2 recent install.

[SOLVED] Ring file-system for a surveillance server?

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Last edited by sironitomas (2011-03-12 04:06:12)

limaunion wrote:
One possiblity is to schedule a daily cron job with something like this:
find /home/videos/ -mindepth 2 -cmin +2880 -exec rm -rf {} \;
In this case cmin=2880 (in minutes) equals 48 hours; 'man find' is your friend
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Gracias! I didn't know about find's cmin, it is a great option. Exec gave me some problems so I ended up using more than one command. This is the script actually:
find /home/user/videos -cmin +4320 > temp
rm `cat temp | grep avi`
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The only thing bad about it, is that when find doesn't produce any output, rm shows a error message because there are no arguments. I know that's not the best way, but it works.
Any recommendation is accepted.
Thanks!
Last edited by sironitomas (2011-03-12 04:05:38)

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Yes, edit the PKGBUILD yourself. Both the link and the checksum.
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