I only read it when I get error like this to know what I shouldn’t do. Is that acceptable? Always checking the news seems superfluous because most times it goes smoothly, and packman will fail and let you know if it can’t do something.
I’ve learnt to check the endeavouros forum before a kernel update (normal updates are fine), it can save you from having to chroot and tweak stuff… It takes 5 minutes to check against 2 hours to fix
Interesting. I’ve never had anything serious than updating keyring and removing before reinstalling packages. Pacman hasn’t failed me enough to need more than
error msg is obvious (like keyring), conflicts, fix it
I only read it when I get error like this to know what I shouldn’t do. Is that acceptable? Always checking the news seems superfluous because most times it goes smoothly, and packman will fail and let you know if it can’t do something.
I’ve learnt to check the endeavouros forum before a kernel update (normal updates are fine), it can save you from having to chroot and tweak stuff… It takes 5 minutes to check against 2 hours to fix
Interesting. I’ve never had anything serious than updating keyring and removing before reinstalling packages. Pacman hasn’t failed me enough to need more than
I use this approach and there’s never been an unrecoverable situation over the decade plus I’ve used Arch Linux.
to be fair this didn’t break thne system either. It refused to update until you followed all 1 instructions