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[–] 34 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

I've updated an Arch install after not being used for 2 years. I don't think there were any issues.

I've experienced far more issues upgrading to a new major release of an apt based distro though...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Then you were definitely lucky with the timeframe. Arch specifically sometimes has updates you need a recent version of pacman to even apply, which means you'll be left behind if you wait for too long. Last time was the switch to .zstd compressed packages: if you didn't have a pacman that supported them you had to manually go and find a pacman from the correct time frame plus all it's deps.

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