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indyfive11

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Registered: 2026-05-15

Posts: 3

Archward — snapshot-backed, gated pacman -Syu with one-click rollback

I got tired of the occasional pacman -Syu breaking something and then scrambling to work out what and how to undo it.
  archward wraps the normal update in a safety workflow:

  - Snapshots packages, configs, services, and network state before touching anything
  - Gates the run on snapshot freshness + free disk
  - Risk-classifies pending packages HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW (kernel, glibc, …) with a transaction preview before you commit
  - Runs the real pacman -Syu (+ your AUR helper), resolves .pacnew files
  - Verifies after: kernel/initramfs sanity, boot-integrity, leftover .pacnew, rollback-cache survival, optional service
  checks
  - If something broke: one-click rollback of a single package/config — or bulk — from the Snapshot Browser. Full CLI too
  (archward verify/snapshot/rollback) for when the desktop doesn't come back and you're stuck in tty1.

  Works on Arch, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, CachyOS, Garuda, Artix. PySide6 GUI, GPL-3.0.

  Install: yay -S archward
  Source / issues: github.com/indyfive11/archward

  Personal project I dogfood on my own desktop — feedback and bug reports welcome.

indyfive11

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Registered: 2026-05-15

Posts: 3

Re: Archward — snapshot-backed, gated pacman -Syu with one-click rollback

Apologies for immediately breaking the package install after posting this when I pushed an update.  Its now working.