On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Aron Widforss <aron@antarkt.is> wrote:
Hi,
I'm going out for a four month hike next spring, and will not bring my loved XPS with me. It struck me yesterday that being offline for four months is something pacman and yaourt might not like. How do these programs handle long-term stasis, will things break horribly when I come back and run an update? Is there anything I can do to avoid it?
For that period of time, I'd do one of two things. If I had a proper system backup, I'd just update when I came back, and hope everything works (best case assumption). This doesn't take much time unless you're on a really slow connection. If I didn't have that (or the space for that) I'd just do updates using the archive a week (at most) at a time. Simulate weekly updates, basically. Should be really safe. Oh, and have a great time!