I yum update frequently. Didn't used to. Fedora can be a little funky about it when it comes to things like Apache, but usually it goes just fine.
EDIT: And now I see that this is an Arch forum. I need to look where I click. :-) |
If you use an AUR integrater, some of them have options to handle that. The one I use is Packer, and it manages nicely with 'packer -Syu --auronly --devel'
Which checks for updates to AUR packages only, upgrades them, and re-makes any -git -hg -svn -bzr and so on packages or any others known to use them. |
Thanks for that, I currently use yaourt and do yaourt -Syu --aur, but it just complains about how my packages are newer than aur ones...
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I tried yaourt for a time, but I didn't get along with it as well as I do packer.
I guess when you get down to it though it's a matter of taste really. I don't use packer for installing packages, I still do it the 'old' way, downloading the PKGBUILD and other needed files and running makepkg, then pacman -U, packer's there strictly for updates. |
I'll have to try it out sometime :) I was of the opinion that yaourt was the only one, I was wrong obviously :)
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers
I'm not sure how up to date it is, but it does give a fairly long list of options, and a comparison at the end. |
I don't know why but I always run a Syy && Syu at the same time. I don't know why I do this but I recall reading somewhere on the Wiki that it's recommended.
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[carlos@bishop /]$ sudo pacman -Syy && sudo pacman -Syu |
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It seems unneccessary. Just run pacman -Syyu.
The double y forces getting the databases even if they don't appear to be newer. It's only really needed if you change mirrors, but I guess you could use it all the time. |
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So ideally if I don't change mirrors / repositories, I shouldn't have to run 'Syy' & only run the 'Syu'.
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I upgrade all the time. At least a few times a day. The more you upgrade the easier it is to troubleshoot if something breaks. Also, if you wait TOO long, you could have problems.
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I've had to cut back of late actually, due to the internet I'm temporarily using costing me a bit too much. I leave it to once a week, and every other week I run through AUR packages.
On the other hand, aside yet another attempt, and subsequent bad run in with, KDE4.x I've had no breakage at all on my laptop. I like Arch. Out of all of them, only Slackware comes close to doing all that Arch does. |
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I ended up building a 2.3.33.4 kernel and an nvidia driver to go with it. |
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