Hi Eli, > > 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. AIUI, if I did then the version of pkgname it would try to download to install would be that snap-shotted when cron ran `pacman -Syuw'. And that's a problem because that version might not be available for download any more if a later one has been made available? Similarly, with packages pkgname depends on. Is there another problem I don't know? I actually tend to: sudo -i at 1:23 <<<'pacman -Syw pkgname' as it's normally not urgent. Can an attempt to fetch an old, now missing, package still occur even with `pacman -Sy pkgname' because the remote database has been altered, and old versions removed, between the -y's refresh and fetching a long list of packages? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
