[arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Aron Widforss
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

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
Hello Aron, On 06/11/15, Aron Widforss 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 s

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Aron Widforss 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-

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Aron Widforss
Ah, it seems easy to just make small hops a couple of weeks at a time using the Archive. Thanks!

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread G. Schlisio
> 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 >

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 6 nov. 2015 09:25 schreef "Aron Widforss" : > > 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

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Jens Adam
I'd do the following: - read the homepage news - check the bugtracker (and forums if I'm not in a hurry) for major kernel ("[linux] ...") issues and other still active bugs from that timeframe, especially those with a high priority and a large number of votes/comments - run my backup script

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Serge Hooge
> - read the homepage news > - check the bugtracker (and forums if I'm not in a hurry) for major > kernel ("[linux] ...") issues and other still active bugs from > that timeframe, especially those with a high priority and a large > number of votes/comments > - run my backup script > - run pac