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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    yay yay yay

    every 15 minutes

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You don't need the -Syu, it's the same as yay --devel

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Something new every day, I'm prone to assuming pacman and by extension yay will do weird things if I don't have the correct number of us and is.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    man yay

    If no operation is specified 'yay -Syu' will be performed

    It has been this way for years. RTFM.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Fun fact jackass, new people start learning these tools every single day.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Sorry, I misinterpreted the intent and tone of your comment. Was only trying to be helpful and save you some keystrokes, carry on.

    Edit: lol my app kept telling me it failed to post the comment but it posted it every time. Wish it wouldn't show the deleted comments.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    On the opposite end here. I know if there's a kernel update then I'd need to reboot and restart everything.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Only to activate the new kernel! You can just leave the current one running with minimal issues, even less if you have something like KernelCare live patching security bugs

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

    Any dynamicly loaded module will fail. Just reboot.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Assuming any dynamically loaded module will fail, why does KernelCare exist and why is it used so prevalently in web hosting environments? It costs money, so buying it when it doesn't work seems odd.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Very valuable high uptime servers exist but they take care, as in professional admins, to maintain it.

    None of this applies to Arch or home users. You get full kernel updates and no old modules are kept. You reboot.

    Other distros like Fedora keep old versions around but you still have to reboot to get updates.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

    I still haven't restarted my system since updating to 6.4

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Did that, arch broke, installed arch again lol

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I put this in my taskbar which helped me stop running paru habitually.

    https://github.com/bouteillerAlan/archupdate

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Can’t have grub problems if you don’t have grub. The howto is great, I’ve converted a few machines using it without any (subsequent bootloader-related) issues.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is there a safe way to do uodates automatically? I could store my password in plaintext and thats barbaric but it still doesnt fix the problem that packages and dependecies can break during updtaes without user input if im right. Tho i guess you could write a script that automatically looks for updates and notifies the user.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    The task is objectively unsafe. Both live updates are unsafe and require intervention but also Arch does not guarantee updates require no manual tasks.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can set up a Cron job or systemd timer for the root account to run that command regularly, if it is a non-interactive command!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    System updates aren't something I'd really trust to be non-interactive.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I've never had to interact with system updates in Linux distros beyond saying "yes I want to update" in the last decade. If I didn't want to, there's usually a force update flag available to skip the asking part. Would I do this for a server without backups? Absolutely not. For home use? I'll roll the dice; I have backups even if there's a couple days of shipping time to get all 12TB mailed to me.

    Of course, major distribution releases are a different monster. Fortunately, I don't deal with those often and when I do, I migrate instead of upgrade.

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