Alternative to very large update on PinebookPro

[brm]

Hi all. The Pinebook-Pro Laptop has been refreshed. Tow-Boot has been installed and Manjaro from the image Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-generic-23.02.img.xz has been installed. This works well.
However the system is telling me it now has 506 updates awaiting. Using pacman -Syyu (then -Syu second try) to update, I encountered dozens of y/n questions and a very long update process. I have paused this as my last attempt failed. Is there a better way?

[Mirdarthos]

@brm

Is there a better way?

Although I use x86_64 and not ARM, I’m relatively certain there is not, sadly. There is the --noconfirm you can try, but even the man page says it’s not a good idea:

$ man pacman
[...]
--noconfirm
Bypass any and all “Are you sure?” messages. It’s not a good idea to do this unless you want to run pacman from a script.
[...]

[linux-aarhus]

@brm

Is there a better way?

Not really - but as mentioned above - this could work - if none of the default answers is No

With the intention of commenting - I just did the same operation my pinebook pro.

I suggest you switch to unstable branch first, as it is more up-do-date than stable or testing - then do the update.

sudo pacman-mirrors -aS unstable
sudo pacman -Syu

[brm]

Any ideas on how to proceed? Is it just a matter of removing
/etc/xdg/konsolerc ?

[nl.smart]

Hi,

My noob solution, build your own unstable image…

[Wiki] How to contribute to Manjaro ARM

[Wiki] Contributing to Manjaro-ARM Over the past few years of Manjaro-ARM’s existence, we have had several people offer to help or at least show interest to help. While we appreciate every offer, it seems one of the largest issues that comes about is a large disconnect between the people wanting to help and the procedures to actually get anything done. We have made it extremely simple to do basic functions for manjaro-arm to mitigate the whole “Dont know how to do” or the “Dont know what to do”.…

To add or remove some packages modify this file (choose your desktop environment here)
/usr/share/manjaro-arm-tools/profiles/arm-profiles/editions/

Find the build image here
/var/cache/manjaro-arm-tools/img/

[brm]

Thanks for your suggestion. I followed the post by linux-aarhus and the update completed. The system is now fully up to date. Thanks everyone!