[arch] ArchLinux CoreDump - Update Quality

[Dirk Kredler]

Hello!

I had a few problems with "pacman -Syu" in the last time:

- on a small Server after a "pacman -Syu" the Server dosent  boot up anymore 
(Kernel failure with sw-raid(?)): 
downgraded

- on another  Server with ISDN (Fritz Card) the ISDN Services (isdnlog, 
capisuite with fax and answering machine) dosent work anymore:
downgraded

- on a Thinkpad T43p (ATI Video Card) after a "pacman -Syu" the X-Server 
dosent work anymore: 
downgraded

- on a Sony VAIO Laptop after a "pacman -Syu" the X-Server dosent work 
anymore: giving up, enough is enough.


What i am trying to say is: i am more and more scared about "pacman -Syu"

Should i leave the continous update process and stay with a release for a long 
time, breaking the rolling realease paradigm? Somebody mentioned, 
that "pacman -Syu" is even more dangerous, if it dosent run at least once a 
week.

But what about security updates? 
And how can i know, that the next update of a packet i need works?

I love ArchLinux because of it's simplicity AND the rolling release system - i 
switched here ALL machines to ArchLinux, but
now i am a little bit frustrated, because all the broken updates happend the 
last few weeks.

So heres is my decision:
-  no "pacman -Syu" will ever happen again, instead i do "pacman -Su" 
and "pacman -U <pkg>" for choosen packages and immeadiate test, to check
that the update was OK.

But that is far more work than just running "pacman -Syu", so heres is my 
question:
- Are there any plans to provide only security updates with a proven quality?

Thank you all very much
Dirk