Stable upgrades

Question

Okey, here's the problem: An irritation I have had with archlinux, in fact the only real one, is that some part of the system crashes when I upgrade. Often it's some new version of a library that doesnt work with an older version, or a new bug is introduced. So what I'm asking is, can I upgrade my applications, but leave libraries and system files alone? I only want to upgrade the core files when a new release of archlinux is out so that I know they are stable.

Answer 1

Well, I had nothing to do, so here you go (name this short script 'findlastupdated.sh')
#!/bin/bash
tac /var/log/pacman.log | sed -n '0,/starting full system upgrade/s|^\[.* upgraded \(.*\) (\(.*\) -> .*)|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/\1-\2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz|p'
That should print packages updated since last 'full system upgrade' with the full path (you need to change x86_64 to i686 if you use that architecture). If you want pacman to install all of those printed, just use
findlastupdated.sh | xargs pacman -U
EDIT: deleted one unnecessary sed call from the script
Last edited by bender02 (2008-05-21 18:21:12)