My manjaro update bash script

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exactly right ,artificial intelligence isn’t truly intelligent ,it just uses very clever statistics and other techniques to identify patterns and predict words,it doesn’t truly understands anything it says so a user must be able to understand the code it provides and make necessary changes and fix logical and other faults and decisions but it is a helpful tool nevertheless

-Syyu why not? i run the script only on major stable updates, on all other cases i use pamac-gui

no one who doesn’t understand what the script does and all its hard-coded decisions should run it blindly, otherwise he would be able to tailor it to his needs

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So:
it is YOUR script
Why, again, would you post it for comment and criticism?

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pamac update check can be disabled in pamac GUI preferences
or edit /etc/pamac.conf and set RefreshPeriod to 0

Also suggest check script for errors

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Freedom is a wonderful thing… and with the title ‘MY update script’ we don’t need to evaluate it as a tool for everyone.

I was very impressed with Linux Mint - the software centre and the update GUI is very impressive and it felt okay for automatic updates.

However, with Manjaro we have many conflicting theories about what’s best… and I really do love to have an excuse to pop up a terminal for some stuff and watch and read the output.

So to check the mirrors, I type mirrors which expands to pacman-mirrors.

This also confirms the branch in case I needed it… If they need updating, I can wait a few hours for them to sync, or

  • CtrlR conpulls up:sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && pacman-mirrors`
  • up

Expands to : sudo pacman -Syu && pamac upgrade && flatpak upgrade.

But sure, bash scripts can be a fun way to waste some time and learn something.

N.B. For easy typing Key-board

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New revised version with minor cosmetic changes and added functionality to handle altered files and .pacsave or .pacnew in corresponding pairs using meld ,with added option to delete them

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For what it’s worth, here’s mine:

(No A.I. was involved, only natural stupidity, and everything is logged.)

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thoughtful and impressive

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Also added initial checks for pgp signatures errors which gradually tries to fix them presenting user with options till issue resolved or tries everything from scratch or exits