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zoqaeski

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From: /earth/australia/.

Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 133

How often should you pacman -Syu?

Hello all

This just came up because for a few weeks I was updating about once a week so that any major updates that required me to restart some programs or the computer wouldn't interfere too much with what I was doing, as I tend to dump a lot of temporary data in /tmp which I later sort through and decide if I wish to keep. But then I found that asides from the relatively huge download size (which could be expected on a rolling-release system), I was getting errors in updating some packages, or weird things would happen because (for example) some repo and AUR packages would have dependencies conflict due to version differences. No breakages, but just slightly concerning weird stuff.

So I was wondering, how often should one update the system? And is it wise to run a pacman -Syy followed by pacman -Su to ensure that the mirrors are synced (I have had some synchronisation issues in the past)

(I've now switched to updating daily before I do anything else, as I'm s'posed to turn off my computer when I'm not using it to cut back on the power bill, but the curious question still remains)

ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: How often should you pacman -Syu?

Update when you have spare time to repair in case of package breakage, common culprits are kernel26, xorg, dbus, libjpeg/libpng and video drivers. Once in a week is fine, even once every 2 weeks is easily manageable.

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: How often should you pacman -Syu?

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