Hi everyone,
What are the VCS packages?
I am referring to:
CheckAURVCSUpdates
in the configuration file of Pamac.
Thank you very much.
They are exclusively AUR packages that are build every time their source code changes. The most prominent examples are these packages that end with -git.
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Gi @johnvranos,
As far as I know, VCS is just a similar thing to git, albeit not as popular. a Version Control System.
Hope this answers your questions.
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VCS is the abstract name for a versioning control system. The most famous instances is currently GIT. Some very old projects are still using SVN. I think Mozilla at some point use HG (or Mercurial) for their source code management.
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It is the “development updates” in Pamac Settings.
VCS is an acronym for Version Control System.
There is several versions of such applicatons, git is the system used by the Linux kernel developers.
Please do keep in mind
- AUR is unsupported
- configuring Pamac (Add / Remove Software)
- to automagically check for updates to AUR
- to check for VCS updates
- may cause excessive memory usage
- may cause system freeze
- may build from unstable source code
Thus the enabling is not recommended unless you know what exactly what you are doing.
Please see → [Need-To-Know] About Manjaro and AUR
Please see → [HowTo] Updating Manjaro as safely as possible
Please see → [root tip] [How To] Update Manjaro the smart way
I guess you mean CVS, which is a version control system
Some are still using CVS; NetBSD and OpenBSD afaik
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