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murfMan

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Registered: 2009-10-27

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pacman -Syu how often?

how often should i run pacman -Syu?

Last edited by murfMan (2009-11-14 18:51:17)

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

As often as you feel comfortable doing, bearing in mind that you may occasionally need to devote some time to troubleshooting.  I have been updating a couple of times a week for nearly a year.  I had to downgrade xorg after the recent update due to crashes, but that was easy enough and aside from that everything is going very well.

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ozar

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

I usually upgrade the system at least once each day.  Sometimes, I'll often hold off when it's one of those upgrades that lots of people are reporting breakages, though.

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piezoelectric

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Registered: 2009-09-08

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

I upgrade a lot because it's easier to isolate problems and downgrade if necessary.  Multiple times per day.

What I do though is

 y -Syu --aur

where y is an alias for yaourt

fsckd

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

The Upgrade Ceremony is performed once every thousand years by a secret cabal of priests. The Chosen One uses the sacred keyboard to enter the Unspoken Words into the Terminal of Gold. Upon completion, a new age begins and there is much rejoicing.

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Toffeeapple

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

I'm with you brother.

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

The Upgrade Ceremony is performed once every thousand years by a secret cabal of priests. The Chosen One uses the sacred keyboard to enter the Unspoken Words into the Terminal of Gold. Upon completion, a new age begins and there is much rejoicing.

Amen! Somebody put this in the wiki please!

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loafer

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

Church of Pacman!  Who's gonna be the new Bob Dobbs?

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murfMan

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Registered: 2009-10-27

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

i need to update bad ... it's been at least a week now.  the update is 385mb

Last edited by murfMan (2009-11-14 21:40:33)

loafer

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

It shouldn't be a problem.  Take a look at the news and the forums, check the packages being updated.  Are there likely to be problem?  Then decide.

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securitybreach

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

The Upgrade Ceremony is performed once every thousand years by a secret cabal of priests. The Chosen One uses the sacred keyboard to enter the Unspoken Words into the Terminal of Gold. Upon completion, a new age begins and there is much rejoicing.

Awesome!!!! +1 for wiki entry!!!!!

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doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

At least once a day. I simply don't like having old software on my computer, within reason (no new Xorg for me yet, as it breaks Catalyst). I have a zsh alias that updates packages in my regular system and my 32 bit chroot, and the AUR packages in both of those too All I do is type 'update'

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

while (1) {
pacman -Syu --noconfirm
}

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

while (1) {
pacman -Syu --noconfirm
}

haha I hope you're joking

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skanky

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Registered: 2009-10-23

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

while (1) {
pacman -Syu --noconfirm
}

haha I hope you're joking

Yeah, he's got a

sleep 1

in there, really.

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Barrucadu

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Registered: 2008-03-30

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

I have an hourly cronjob to download updates, and then I install them whenever I notice I have any; I generally check several time a day. It's like an obsession

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lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

$ wc -l /var/log/pacman.log
8946 /var/log/pacman.log

that is since 3 months ago

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brianhanna

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Registered: 2009-10-30

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Re: pacman -Syu how often?

I like to update just about every day.  Easier to know what broke if anything does.  Also, if I go a couple weeks without it as I do on my desktop machine sometimes, almost every program on it needs to be updated and the download takes a while.