Hi,

maybe I just can't figure out a way of doing this, however I'm quite pissed with the current situation ...

My system is running fine basically, however I wanted to play around with my partition scheme. I'm using an encrypted LVM setup, which is great so far. Although I could change the partition scheme with LVM, I wanted to back up my current partitions - just in case.

To do so, I have inserted my Arch Linux CD, and booted it. Its quite astonishing that 2009.08 is still the latest one, which is the basis for a lot of trouble! As there were several changes made since then, its now quite impossible to work with the medium and the latest packages in the repositories. For instance I need to install "partclone" from AUR in order to backup my partitions. As partclone has some dependencies, I also choose to update pacman, and there the trouble begins: By upgrading pacman there are so many changes it wants to make, which just don't work (out of the box). For example it wants to replace linux-api-headers by linux-headers, but can't do it, because there are so many files/programs using linux-api-headers right at the moment. As I need to install "gcc" in order to build my partclone package, I've also tried to do this, which fails, because it depends on "linux-headers", which can't be installed (see above). So you end up with whole bunch of incompatibilities, which can't be fixed (or at least, I couldn't :)).

Now I have to figure out how to build partclone in order to backup my partitions. I guess I can't build it on my current machine, because this one is up to date, and due to the amount of changes during 2009.08 pacman won't install it, or it won't work. I'm working on that right now ...

However my claim is that there should be a more updated image in order to avoid such sort of problems ...

Or have I just missed something?