with rolling release comes rolling responsibility
POV: You haven’t updated Arch for 5 minutes
Comparing the date on the tweet with the date when arch released go-2:1.26.1-1, it appears that it had been over a week since the last upgrade.
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No one lies on the internet when cypherpunk is on the case!
This is not even a meme. I updated my laptop yesterday and here I am doing yet another upgrade with 400mb+ dl size.
I was trawling through Octopi and saw an update notifier. Thought it was neat. Now I won’t have to update if there’s no updates, I thought.
I removed it after a day. I could have set it to only look once a day, but realised that if I just update as part of what I do before I shutdown then I basically got the same effect, without being actually notified of anything. I don’t think there’s ever been a time where I ran an update and it said “nah nothing to do 👍”
I literally completed an update the other day and by the time it was done there were new updates. The update notification is useless, lol.
✊ The struggle is real
Net upgrade size should be in the negatives
just set up a cron job to upgrade your system every 5 minutes
Just install pamac, it can update every time you shut down. I don’t mind it updating every day if I don’t have to babysit it.
A related thing I’ve done is I’ve made it so pacman can’t run outside of Tmux. At least not in that shell profile. One of the reasons is I got so fed up with Ubuntu server that I decided I’d experiment with a few servers being Arch. Some might consider that crazy but it’s what experiments are for.
I can’t afford to have an ssh disconnect break a system and forcing Tmux prevents me from doing something lazy. Side benefit… it also means it’s easier to not babysit it.
I will take a look at this, thanks
I’d also recommend timeshift for recovery from bad updates, if you aren’t already.
This is all fine as long as you are not on a throttled connection. I read an blog post a couple of years ago in which the author switched from Arch to Debian for a longer offgrid vacation for this exact reason.
Just don’t update
Updating your software is the most important action one can take for cyber security, so no. That is not an option.
Also the update can fail if you wait too long (mostly GPG keys, which can be fixed)
I mean you’ll be fine off grid for a couple months
Not with the arch, i broke several arch installations by being off grid for 2-3 months
Calm down. All updates are not security updates. People can read change logs before deciding to update.
Does anybody read all the changelogs? There are hundreds of updates every time I run things.
That’ll be three gigs to download hut we will give you 200 megs of free space back, as far as what’s changed? We’ve further optimized the system for you and you can enjoy using it as before ie more better but nothing you’ll notice.
I understand why but updates that do nothing but keep you up to date are annoying for the user.
Cuz they are need user to attend
I borked my caxhyOS install yesterday with a sudo pacman -Syu…
Took me about 5 min to fix restoring one of the snapshots in the bootloader
Snapshots? What are you, a medical institution?
“Stateful updates? In this economy?” - some NixOS user
That’s nothing compared to rolling release atomic distributions. I use secureblue, and every time I do a rpm-ostree upgrade I have a 1-2GB update D:
Shit! Thanks! I forgot!
I’d you do every day updates, you are a sucker!
What the hell even is Github CLI? Is that like a Microslop clone of gitor what?
It’s a CLI tool for interacting with remote repos and things like issues and PRs on GitHub.
Do it weekly then.
