archscripts

archscripts is my project to make archlinux management a little bit easier.

update-arch

update-system.sh is a script that can be used to update archlinux. It's goal is that the system is only updated once per week to reduce the temptation of frequent updates.

If executed and it is not Friday it will just cache the new packages with pacman -Syuw. When it is the end of week then it will update the whole system this includes updates for

• packages from the synced repositories
• packages from the AUR using yay, paru, trizen or pamac
• snaps
• flatpaks

And in the end, it will ask the user

1. if the pacman cache should be cleaned using paccache -r
2. if unused dependencies should be removed using yay -Yc
3. if orphaned packages should be removed using pacman -Qtdq

update-mirrors

update-mirrors.sh will updated the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist for mirrors.

It should be executed with sudo and if done so, it will asks how many mirrors it should write to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. It will test all mirrors from the default configuration, these configs are

• https mirrors
• IP-Version 4
• active mirror status

Add scripts to path

I generally prefer to use symbolic links heading to the scripts instead of copying them to PATH-directories.

Create symbolic links that link to the scripts.

ln -sf "$(pwd)/update-system.sh" ~/.local/bin/update-system
ln -sf "$(pwd)/update-mirrors.sh" ~/.local/bin//update-mirrors

Requirements

For update-mirrors.sh

Before executing the update-mirror.sh script please, insure that the package pacman-contrib is installed. To install the package, execute

sudo pacman -S --needed  pacman-contrib

For update-system.sh

The update-arch.sh script doesn't need any special dependecies. But a AUR-wrapper like yay,paru , trizen or pamac would be useful to update AUR-packages. To install them

1. follow the links

2. clone one of these repositories with git

   git clone https://github.com/Jguer/yay.git

   git clone https://github.com/trizen/trizen.git

   git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.git/applications/pamac.git

3. Then make a package and install it with makepkg -si