2y ago

I don't actually use pacman for that

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$ pacman -Syu
$ sudo !!
- Umm... yay -Syu
  
  Just 'yay'
- I alias it to fuck to remind me of the appropriate reaction
- Every damn time! That's why I started aliasing 'sudo pacman -Syu && paru' to 'U'
- make a cron job.
yay yay yay
every 15 minutes
until grub shits itself
- systemd-boot baby
  
  Can’t have grub problems if you don’t have grub. The howto is great, I’ve converted a few machines using it without any (subsequent bootloader-related) issues.
- refind master race
I put this in my taskbar which helped me stop running paru habitually.
https://github.com/bouteillerAlan/archupdate
- I run it every time I power on my laptop. Just can't help it.
Did that, arch broke, installed arch again lol
I unironically do that
On the opposite end here. I know if there's a kernel update then I'd need to reboot and restart everything.
- Only to activate the new kernel! You can just leave the current one running with minimal issues, even less if you have something like KernelCare live patching security bugs
  
  Any dynamicly loaded module will fail. Just reboot.
- I still haven't restarted my system since updating to 6.4
Guys what are you talking about, pacman is a cheese with a ghost problem
thats me
Is there a safe way to do uodates automatically? I could store my password in plaintext and thats barbaric but it still doesnt fix the problem that packages and dependecies can break during updtaes without user input if im right. Tho i guess you could write a script that automatically looks for updates and notifies the user.
- You can set up a Cron job or systemd timer for the root account to run that command regularly, if it is a non-interactive command!
  
  System updates aren't something I'd really trust to be non-interactive.
- The task is objectively unsafe. Both live updates are unsafe and require intervention but also Arch does not guarantee updates require no manual tasks.
yay
Sudo Pac-Man -Sy
guilty as charged
God I miss apt, why would I not want to run -Syu?
I use manjaro btw
- sudo pacman -Syu is equivalent to sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, you'd want to run it about once a day to ensure you have all current updates. Pamac should allow you to update everything from a GUI, so you don't have to worry about that.
  
  Cool that's what I thought, just confused by the people saying they've bricked their systems by doing it!
- is that an excuse?

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