On 11/7/18 5:46 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi leoutation, > >>> This morning's `pacman -Su' had a problem building the fallback >>> initcpio >> >> Right command is pacman -Syu > > Not in my case as I've previously done a `pacman -Syuw' during `free > bandwidth' hours, thanks to cron. Later on, when I'm at the keyboard > and it's a convenient time for breakage, I upgrade to what's already > been downloaded manually and definitely don't want `-y'. :-) That's dangerous because you could forget and run pacman -S pkgname. Not saying you would, and in fact I've done -Sywu all the time myself... But, just because I do it doesn't mean I should. ;) Instead, I eventually did some fiddling with the checkupdates script, which can be seen here: https://git.archlinux.org/users/eschwartz/pacman-contrib.git/commit/?id=80be77ce7d3e1ba8eee42c56623e01f0c45235cd This will eventually make its way to pacman-contrib upstream, but it's pending some pacman changes which are still in git and only very recently landed. In the meantime you can also use https://github.com/eli-schwartz/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/cacheupdates Just run cacheupdates the way you'd run checkupdates, but if you specify the argument "-d" (or "--download") then it will also try to download any pending updates into the cache, still using the temporary copy of the syncdbs. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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