Hello Aron, On 06/11/15, Aron Widforss wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going out for a four month hike next spring, and will not bring my > loved XPS with me. It struck me yesterday that being offline for four > months is something pacman and yaourt might not like. How do these > programs handle long-term stasis, will things break horribly when I come > back and run an update? Is there anything I can do to avoid it? > Probably the best thing is to read the news in reverse when you are back. Pacman in general had some issues but I haven't seen something big in last months - in my opinion it's rare occations where long inactivity breaks the system. Having said that though if you notice something "smelly" on the news I'd suggest to use something like Archlinux Archive [1]. Although not officially supported there are some nice features with agetpkg [2] like "Restoring to a specific date" [3]. Note: The agetpkg has been the subject of a discussion in dev list for inlcuding it as a package or being in AUR. Hopefully by the time you are going this would be resolved. Discalimer: I've never used it and the most I've been inactive is about a month which pacman was able to work with. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive [2]: https://github.com/seblu/agetpkg [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_restore_all_my_packages_at_a_specific_date -- Leonidas Spyropoulos Compiled in Vim, sent through mutt.
