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Cyrus Yip

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[SOLVED] Is it harmful to execute "pacman -Syu" and refuse upgrades?

I execute "pacman -Syu" to check whether there are new versions of packages. If there are new versions but I don't want to upgrade right now, I press "n" to refuse upgrades. Is it equal to "pacman -Sy"? Is it harmful? I am afraid that executing "pacman -Syu" and refusing upgrades cause partial upgrades.

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Re: [SOLVED] Is it harmful to execute "pacman -Syu" and refuse upgrades?

I execute "pacman -Syu" to check whether there are new versions of packages. If there are new versions but I don't want to upgrade right now, I press "n" to refuse upgrades. Is it equal to "pacman -Sy"?

Yes.

Is it harmful?

Not by itself. But it sets you up for partial upgrades.

I am afraid that executing "pacman -Syu" and refusing upgrades cause partial upgrades.

Not directly, but e.g. a following

pacman -S some stuff

will.

If you just want to check for updates, use

checkupdates

from pacman-contrib.

Last edited by schard (2021-11-10 14:38:44)

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Cyrus Yip

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Re: [SOLVED] Is it harmful to execute "pacman -Syu" and refuse upgrades?

Thank you, schard. You dispelled my doubt. I will use

checkupdates

to check updates.