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dwightshrute

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[Solved] Going offline for a couple months, will it break my system?

Trying to gets some bills paid off so I've decided to turn off my internet for a couple months. When I get it back on around December, will it break my system when I pacman -Syu? Should I just backup my data and reinstall?

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ngoonee

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Re: [Solved] Going offline for a couple months, will it break my system?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … the_system

The rollback mirrors can also be used to update a week at a time (or a month at a time).

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dwightshrute

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Re: [Solved] Going offline for a couple months, will it break my system?

Do you mean I would have to do it package by package? That would be extremely tedious.

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Re: [Solved] Going offline for a couple months, will it break my system?

A couple months should be no problem at all, but July to "around December" is not just a couple months.  It may be fine, but if it's not the post above gives information on how to do one or two incremental updates to checkpoints in between now and then.  And to answer your follow up question, no, not package by package - that would be a partial upgrade and would almost certainly break things.  Read the link.

EDIT: oops, I thought the link above would be to here, this is what you need:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive

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dwightshrute

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Re: [Solved] Going offline for a couple months, will it break my system?

Okay I see, thanks!

ngoonee

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Re: [Solved] Going offline for a couple months, will it break my system?

EDIT: oops, I thought the link above would be to here, this is what you need:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive

I.... embarrassingly could not find that page, having not been there in years. It may even have moved in that time...

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Re: [Solved] Going offline for a couple months, will it break my system?

One benefit to frequent updating is that there aren't a whole lot of packages to update so it's easier to be sure you read the update output and act on anything that may be needed. I usually update at least twice a day. After months of no updates there will be a lot of packages that need updated. If you still pay good attention to the update output and look for actions needed, there won't be a problem. Trouble is likely if you don't pay attention for actions needed. Updating a week at a time helps in that there won't be so many updates to do at one time but you'll in the end update many packages that updated in multiple weeks. Update everything at once and you'll only update any given package once.

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