Ridiculous Updates on Arch Linux
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Well, not really. If this were Ubuntu I would be prepping to beta test, but Arch has this wonderfull rolling release system.
I used to keep Shaman open 24/7 set to check for updates once every 4 hours. Once a day I would have it update. About two months ago I stopped doing that for whatever reason. I think shaman had a crashing bug concerning plasma. Today I attempted to install twisted from pacman, only to have it give me 404s. Turns out I hadn’t run -Syu since I stopped using shaman. So, dutifully I ran pacman -Syu; pacman -S twisted. Here are the results of the first command:
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace portmap with core/rpcbind? [Y/n]
:: Replace lzma-utils with core/xz-utils? [Y/n]
warning: libtorrent: local (0.12.4-1) is newer than community (0.12.2-2)
warning: rtorrent: local (0.8.4-1) is newer than community (0.8.2-3)
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server will be installed before its nvidia-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
Remove (2): portmap-6.0-2 lzma-utils-4.32.7-1
Total Removed Size: 0.31 MB
Targets (434): kernel-headers-2.6.30.1-1 tzdata-2009j-1 glibc-2.10.1-3 readline-6.0.003-1 bash-4.0.024-1 libtirpc-0.2.0-1 rpcbind-0.2.0-1 xz-utils-4.999.8beta-4 gcc-libs-4.4.0-5 db-4.7.25.4-1 gdbm-1.8.3-6 gmp-4.3.1-2
shadow-4.1.4.1-1 coreutils-7.4-1 perl-5.10.0-6 openssl-0.9.8k-4 sqlite3-3.6.15-2 python-2.6.2-5 boost-1.39.0-1 tcp_wrappers-7.6-10 libmysqlclient-5.1.36-1 mysql-clients-5.1.36-1 mysql-5.1.36-1
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k3b-1.66.0alpha2-1 qt3-3.3.8-12 kdelibs3-3.5.10-4 kdemod-kdebindings-common-4.2.4-1 kdemod-kdebindings-python-4.2.4-1 kdemod-arxin-3400-1 libxklavier-3.9-2 sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 lm_sensors-3.1.1-1
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kdemod-kdeutils-kgpg-4.2.4-1 kdemod-kdeutils-kwallet-4.2.4-1 kdemod-kdeutils-printer-applet-4.2.4-1 kdemod-kgrubeditor-0.8.5-8 kernel26-firmware-2.6.30-1 klibc-1.5.15-3 klibc-extras-2.5-4
klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-10 klibc-module-init-tools-3.8-1 klibc-udev-141-3 udev-141-3 mkinitcpio-0.5.25-1 module-init-tools-3.8-1 kernel26-2.6.30.1-1 konq-plugins-4.2.4-1 qemu-0.10.5-1 kqemu-1.4.0pre1-3
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lib32-libxcomposite-0.4.0-2 lib32-libxfixes-4.0.3-2 lib32-libxdamage-1.1.1-2 lib32-libxdmcp-1.0.2-2 lib32-libxml2-2.7.3-2 lib32-libxrender-0.9.4-2 lib32-libxt-1.0.6-1 lib32-mesa-7.5-1 libass-0.9.6-2
libdownload-1.3-3 libgdiplus-2.4.2-1 libgsf-1.14.14-1 libsasl-2.1.23-1 libtorrent-rasterbar-0.14.4-2 lighttpd-1.4.23-1 lilo-22.8-3 lua-5.1.4-4 lvm2-2.02.48-1 lzo-1.08-5 lzo2-2.03-1 man-db-2.5.5-2
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nmap-5.00-1 nvidia-185.18.14-1 openal-1.8.466-1 openoffice-base-3.1.0-5 pacman-mirrorlist-20090616-1 pidgin-2.5.8-1 pmount-0.9.19-3 postgresql-libs-8.3.7-2 postfix-2.6.2-1 postgresql-8.3.7-3 ppp-2.4.4-9
procps-3.2.8-1 psmisc-22.7-1 python-nose-0.11.1-1 python-pygame-1.8.1-4 python24-2.4.6-2 pyxdg-0.17-1 qbittorrent-1.3.3-3 qtcreator-1.2.1-1 qtcurve-kde4-0.66.1-1 rrdtool-1.3.8-1 rsync-3.0.6-1 ruby-1.8.7_p174-1
samba-3.3.6-2 sauerbraten-2009_05_04_trooper_edition-1 sdl_gfx-2.0.19-1 subversion-1.6.3-1 sudo-1.7.2-1 eventlog-0.2.9-1 syslog-ng-3.0.3-1 system-config-printer-1.1.7-3 sysvinit-2.86-5 terminator-0.13-1
thunderbird-2.0.0.22-1 tintin-1.99.6-1 tre-0.7.6-1 unrar-3.9.4-1 unzip-6.0-4 usbutils-0.84-1 videoproto-2.2.2-2 wireless_tools-29-3 wpa_supplicant-0.6.9-2 python-urwid-0.9.8.4-1 wicd-1.6.2-1 xbmc-9.04.1-6
xen-3.4.0-1 xf86dgaproto-2.0.3-2 xf86miscproto-0.9.2-2 xfsprogs-3.0.1-1 xineramaproto-1.1.2-2 xorg-apps-7.4-2 xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.1-2 xorg-res-utils-1.0.3-3 xorg-twm-1.0.4-3 xorg-utils-7.4-4 xterm-243-2
zsh-4.3.10-1
Total Download Size: 1499.64 MB
Total Installed Size: 4347.77 MB |
Yeah. It nearly knocked me out of my chair. Now I could go on about how I should update more often etc. etc. But my point in this post is that not updating in 2 months should not give you a 1.5GB update. Of course, this is partially my fault. I have multiple art packages, a couple of games, etc. that weigh in at an average of 70MB, but not 10 of them, certainly not 21 of them! (21×70 = 1470).
Ooh well, at least I dont have to recompile all of it.