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jerryxiao

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Registered: 2019-06-28

Posts: 5

Pacroller - The Unattended Upgrades for Arch Linux

I've seen concepts like this years ago, but few made it to a final product. 
Pacroller is a python tool with minimal dependencies (only python and pyalpm, in order to make the tool itself less prone to break during upgrades), built with dozens of (trusty) regexs to parse your pacman output and point out anything it does not understand. 

https://github.com/isjerryxiao/pacroller 

This little tool is developed mainly for my several arch servers. These servers typically have their kernel upgrades ignored and needrestart configured so that outdated daemons would be restarted after an unattended upgrade.
Also it can be used on daily driver archlinux systems, which would probably save you some time from staring at the pacman output and trying to find an error. This tool does that for you, in a decent way.

Any suggestions or bug reports are appreciated.

jerryxiao

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Registered: 2019-06-28

Posts: 5

Re: Pacroller - The Unattended Upgrades for Arch Linux