[arm-allstar] Check package list before upgrade?

[David McGough]

Yes, you can run pacman manually, as you described.

No updates that I push should have any impact on sshd operation.

73, David KB4FXC


On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, "Nate Bargmann via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Being an old Linux hand, one of the things I value is seeing a list of
> packages to be updated before I do the deed.  I am not faulting the
> upgrade menu item in hamvoip, I would like to do the exact same action
> manually.
> 
> I see the following in /var/log/pacman.log:
> 
> [2021-09-10 09:35] [PACMAN] Running '/usr/local/hamvoip-pacman/bin/pacman --force --noconfirm --yes -Syu'
> [2021-09-10 09:35] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
> [2021-09-10 09:35] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
> 
> This update was done on a test system, not the repeater remote site.
> 
> I am guessing that if I ran
> 
> 	/usr/local/hamvoip-pacman/bin/pacman -Syu
> 
> manually that I would get the list and then confirm each package?
> 
> As I don't want to cause an issue with SSH access, I need to be careful.
> 
> 73, Nate, N0NB
> 
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