[arch] rebuild pacman database

Xiaoyu Peng peng.xiaoyu at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 21:34:04 EST 2007


2007/1/7, RedShift <redshift at pandora.be>:
> Just copy your /home and your /etc directory to a safe place and
> reinstall your system. In the meantime you'll have a fresh install. When
> you're done installing your system just put /home and /etc back in it's
> place (maybe it smart to selectively copy files from your old /etc, so
> you don't copy over the mess your previous system was).
>
> When copying don't forget to keep permissions. Upon reinstalling make
> sure your groupid and userid are the same as on your old system. The
> tools supplied allow overriding the default "increment previous id".
>

Thanks everyone.
I just reinstall it using the quickinst script in my exist archlinux,
copy all config files to the new one and mount /home/ partition. Great
quickinst with a fine network --> a fast installation :)

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