If you think you have ever felt true fear, you havent tried Gentoo yet

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Over a year, many repos become relative volatile.

    pacman-keyring or what that package is called gets stale really quick over longer periods of time. Large updates are quite smooth in Arch, but IIRC, -Syyu has helped me before.

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      2 days ago

      The extra y just forces a database update. The mechanism to detect when not to update the database is a simple timestamp compare, and shouldn’t break. archlinux-keyring might need a “manual” update if an Arch Linux system is left without updates for a longer period of time. That’s the only situation doing pacman -Sy, then pacman -S archlinux-keyring is recommended, and it needs to be followed with pacman -Syu to avoid a partial upgrade.

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        2 days ago

        Was any of this different in the later 2010s? Thanks for that, but I feel like there was a time when there was a mentioning of a database upgrade in the wiki.

        Maybe I’m confusing it with multilib enabling