update_yo_shiz

Description

This tool provides automation for all update steps on Arch Linux, specific to my own systems.

This means in addition to pacman, it also runs aura which is my preferred AUR manager.

If you want it to run for your AUR manager, feel free to create an issue.

Features:

• Handles all the standard pacman steps, including rebooting, and checking the log for errors.
• Has option to only list updates, including AUR ones.
• Has option to only clean the package file cache, including configured ones for AUR or otherwise.
• Has option to only check the system log for errors.
• Can be configured to uninstall/reinstall odd AUR packages that break dependencies with non-AUR packages during updates (e.g. the virtualbox-ext-oracle AUR package which breaks updating virtualbox and vice versa).

Usage

Name:
  UpdateYoShiz

Message:
  Online help.

Description:
  Automates all the steps normally taken to update Danamis machines:
     1. Check pacman updates.
     2. Uninstall conflicting AUR packages if needed.
     3. Download pacman updates.
     4. Apply pacman downloaded updates. Warn to close all apps first.
     5. Check for new *.pacnew files.
     6. Reboot if needed.
     7. Check system log for (new) error messages, if rebooted.
     8. Check+apply pacman updates.
     9. Check+apply aura updates.
    10. Goto 8 until updates are clear.
    11. Reinstall conflicting AUR packages if needed.
    12. Clear package caches.

Usage:
  uys [-bcp] [b|boot_log] [c|check] [p|pcc]
  uys [-r|r|rebooted]

Where:
  b, boot_log, -b => Check boot log for errors, ignore the other steps.

  c, check, -c => Check for updates, ignore the other steps.

  p, pcc, -p => Do package cache cleanup, ignore the other steps.

  r, rebooted, -r => A reboot just occurred, so begin at #7 above.

See also:
  - Configurable global defaults are defined in the `Uys::Config`
    constant, at the bottom of this file (<path to uys executable>).

Dependencies

• Arch Linux. If you're on another distro, this tool is not really worth your time, UNLESS you want to use it as a guide for your own tool.
• Ruby 3.1+. Tested on Ruby 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.
• A not-too-old version of bash.
• The pacman-contrib Arch package.
• The aura tool for AUR management. This could be changed in theory, with minor code updates.

Configuration

• Search the file for Config = to see the main configuration block.
• Typically I'll have Virtualbox installed for my systems, so you can see that it's configured to handle the virtualbox-ext-oracle package, which is weird for updates because of dependencies with the non-AUR virtualbox packages.
• You probably would be interested in the pkg_cache_clean config params. For my systems, only the last 2 package files are cached for installed packages, and an uninstalled package gets its cached package files wiped.

Future plans

• Add more comments and docs.
• Whatever neat things other users might think of.

Contributing

Well sure, if you want to. Just create an issue and we can go from there.