1 yr. ago • 96%

I don't actually use pacman for that

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$ pacman -Syu

$ sudo !!

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- Umm... yay -Syu
  
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  Just 'yay'
  
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- Every damn time! That's why I started aliasing 'sudo pacman -Syu && paru' to 'U'
  
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- I alias it to fuck to remind me of the appropriate reaction
  
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- make a cron job.
  
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until grub shits itself

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- systemd-boot baby
  
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  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.
  
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- refind master race
  
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yay yay yay

every 15 minutes

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Did that, arch broke, installed arch again lol

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I put this in my taskbar which helped me stop running paru habitually.

https://github.com/bouteillerAlan/archupdate

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- I run it every time I power on my laptop. Just can't help it.
  
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I unironically do that

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Guys what are you talking about, pacman is a cheese with a ghost problem

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On the opposite end here. I know if there's a kernel update then I'd need to reboot and restart everything.

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- 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
  
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  Any dynamicly loaded module will fail. Just reboot.
  
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- I still haven't restarted my system since updating to 6.4
  
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thats me

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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.

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- 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!
  
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- The task is objectively unsafe. Both live updates are unsafe and require intervention but also Arch does not guarantee updates require no manual tasks.
  
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- 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!
  
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  System updates aren't something I'd really trust to be non-interactive.
  
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God I miss apt, why would I not want to run -Syu?

I use manjaro btw

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- 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.
  
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  Cool that's what I thought, just confused by the people saying they've bricked their systems by doing it!
  
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- is that an excuse?
  
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guilty as charged

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Sudo Pac-Man -Sy

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yay

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