On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Aron Widforss <aron@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? For that period of time, I'd do one of two things. If I had a proper system backup, I'd just update when I came back, and hope everything works (best case assumption). This doesn't take much time unless you're on a really slow connection. If I didn't have that (or the space for that) I'd just do updates using the archive a week (at most) at a time. Simulate weekly updates, basically. Should be really safe. Oh, and have a great time!
