Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

[Shlomi Fish]

Thanks for the tip, Steve!

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:32:20 +0200
> Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Sorry for being unclear, but by "unusable state" I meant that one can
> > no longer upgrade the system it using "pacman -Syu" (or whatever the
> > command is) because it gives errors. The system itself works fine but
> > will run outdated software applications (and often ones with known
> > security vulnerabilities).
>
> I've had this happen several times with Manjaro (and therefore I assume
> it would happen with Arch also). All the cases of which I'm aware are
> solveable like this:
>
> pacman -Syu --ignore badpkgname
>
> The preceding allows the rest of your upgrade to go through. Report the
> problem, and in the near future the bad program will be fixed and you
> can upgrade the formerly bad package.
>
> It's really unfortunate that, without --ignore, pacman sees fit to go
> through the entire the entire upgrade, perhaps a half hour, and then
> tell you there's one bad package and upgrade nothing. Fortunately, in
> the time I spent with Manjaro, I saw only two or three cases in which a
> package refused to install and took the whole pacman -Syu with it.
>
> SteveT
>
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