hey hypothetically if I had an arch linux install that hadn't been updated in like a year and a half, how badly would it break if I did a quick pacman -Syu? Asking for a friend. #linux #archlinux

@HeyCallMeRed the update will prolly fail coz of some pkgs' signature not being verified, which comes from your pacman keyring having become stale. so, after a long time away, run your update thus:

sudo pacman --needed --noconfirm -S archlinux-keyring && sudo pacman -Syu

if that still doesn't work, there is a "nuclear" option, but hopefully you won't need it

edit: oh yeah, as a wise peep above said, also first review & action any relevant issues since last update in https://archlinux.org/news/

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