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How often do you update your system? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I find that I habitually open a terminal and run an update on every boot of my system (which gets rebooted once a day). I'm curious what other people do.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Every time I install a package, or once a month.
I use a script that shows new Arch news messages, updates the mirrorlist with the fastest mirrors in my country, updates repo packages, updates aur packages, then prints created .pacnew and .pacsave files as well as orphaned and dropped packages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use a script that shows new Arch news messages, updates the mirrorlist with the fastest mirrors in my country, updates repo packages, updates aur packages, then prints created .pacnew and .pacsave files as well as orphaned and dropped packages.

Would you mind sharing that script?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's not very sophisticated and has no error handling, but I only run it locally...

#!/bin/bash
echo -e "\n...READING NEWS...\n"
yay -Pw
echo -e "\n...UPDATING MIRRORS...\n"
sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
sudo reflector --country Germany --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
echo -e "\n...UPDATING REPO PACKAGES...\n"
sudo pacman -Syu
echo -e "\n...UPDATING AUR...\n"
yay -Syu
echo -e "\n...ORPHANED PACKAGES...\n"
pacman -Qtd
echo -e "\n...PACKAGES NOT IN ARCH REPO...\n"
pacman -Qm
echo -e "\n...NEW CONFIG FILES...\n"
sudo find /etc -name *.pac*
echo "DONE 😊"

#Dependencies: yay, reflector, rsync, noto-fonts-emoji

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@KISSmyOS @Kalcifer u could Just use reflector

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I do.