Upgrade after 2 years

Hi all,
I just managed to do a complete upgrade (pacman -Syu) of Arch on my old laptop (which I seldom use). It went pretty smoothly, given that the last such upgrade was about 26 months ago!
There were some problems, of course, and I had to use the "--force" option. Here's the summary:
To upgrade "pacman", I had to download the package "by hand", as there is now some prefix (-i686) on the file names of which the old version of pacman didn't know about.
After upgrading the Kernel and udev (which I did first, because I was scared of doing everything at once), the laptop wouldn't boot anymore as the device names of the hard disks had been changed from "hda*" to "sda*". Fortunately, grub let me boot from the correct device and I got far enough to be able to edit "menu.lst" and "fstab". Then, there was trouble at the initialization of runlevel 3. I could boot in single-user mode, though, and the problem went away after I completed the upgrade (with -Syu). Xorg wouldn't start at first, but this was quickly dealt with by commenting out a bothersome line in xorg.conf (concerning my video card, an ATI mach64).
The "network profile" menu didn't work anymore. After some time, I found out that this was due to /etc/network-profiles having been renamed to /etc/network.d.
Finally, there was an annoying problem with the keyboard in X. The "Alt Gr" (right Alt) key didn't work anymore, which on my german keyboard means that it is not possible to type @ and |. I still don't know what the problem with it is, but invoking "setkbd" (without arguments or with "de") once in the terminal or in .xinitrc solves the matter. I am sure to have all the right options in xorg.conf ("pc-105", "de", ...). Any hints on this are welcome, of course.
What is your experience with infrequent upgrades?
Last edited by Kalidor (2008-10-13 16:15:39)

Kooothor wrote:
Maybe a more simple way would have been to save your datas, and do a clean new install from ftp with latest snapshot, no ?
But you seem like a guy who like to get into trouble, am I wrong ?
Not really. Of course I reckoned that the upgrade wouldn't work out, in which case I could still have made the new install. And with /home being on a separate partition, it wouldn't have involved much data saving.
The main problem that I have with frequent upgrades is that I need to get things done on the computer. It doesn't suffice that most of the time, 95% say, an "-Syu" upgrade works without or little intervention on my side. The remaining 5% still discourage me.
Also, considering that I use most of the installed software only infrequently, I find regular complete upgrades rather uneconomic. What's the point in upgrading a piece of software several times in-between using it?

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