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SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Pacman Cron

Is this wise?

#!/bin/sh

# Update Arch Linux
if [ -x /usr/bin/pacman ]; then
    pacman -Syu --noconfirm
fi

Last edited by SpookyET (2008-02-26 21:57:16)

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Pacman Cron

probably not...
you will miss the upgrade messages and have no control over your system...
if something goes wrong, you won't know what caused it...

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Pacman Cron

Worst. Idea. Ever.

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Pacman Cron

Oh sweet jesus. You're more than welcome to do this, but I just wrote your nick down on my list of "people who should have known better". I'm going to laugh hard when things start breaking for ya.

Seriously though, I *do* cron job an -Sy to keep my DB up to date, but NEVER an -Syu

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SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Pacman Cron

probably not...
you will miss the upgrade messages and have no control over your system...
if something goes wrong, you won't know what caused it...

The output is in /var/log/pacman.log.

Oh sweet jesus. You're more than welcome to do this, but I just wrote your nick down on my list of "people who should have known better". I'm going to laugh hard when things start breaking for ya.

I have not actually done it. I asked if it's wise. 99% of the time when I have done a manual upgrade, nothing bad happened. The other 1% of the time, file configurations have changed. Again, nothing broke. I was notified that I should delete the old files manually.

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Pacman Cron

yeah the output is there, but if you look in there on a regular basis there...
it's not different than doing pacman -Syu on a regular basis...