pacman-offline

Run offline system update with pacman.

The offline system update with pacman is achieved by integrating into offline updates in systemd. In fact only two scripts and a number of systemd unit files are used to glue systemd and pacman.

Requirements

There are the runtime dependencies:

And there's an optional dependency to support elevating privileges:

polkit

Optional basic support for plymouth is integrated.

Usage

A single command pacman-offline is used to prepare the offline update. It accepts some arguments:

-a: abort pending system-update
-c: clean before download
-f: force if other system-update is pending
-h: show help
-p: reboot, install and poweroff immediately
-r: reboot and install immediately
-t: start timer for nightly reboot
-y: update sync databases

Elevating privileges

The privileges are elevated automatically if polkit is installed. This works with no authentication if your user is member of the group wheel. To add your user to that group run:

usermod --append --groups wheel user

If your user is not member of that group you will be asked for a password.

Timer for preparation

You can enable a timer to prepare the offline update automatically.

systemctl enable pacman-offline-prepare.timer

This will trigger several minutes after boot, then ever day. The databases are synced, then packages are downloaded. The updates are installed when ever the system reboots.

Timer for nightly reboot

You can enable a timer for nightly reboot:

systemctl enable pacman-offline-reboot.timer

This will trigger at night, if updates are pending and prepared.

Configuration

A sinppet for inclusion in /etc/pacman.conf is shipped. To make use of it add this line:

Include = /etc/pacman.d/offline.conf

It will cause pacman to ignore linux packages and prevent breaking module loading. These packages are not ignored on offline update.

Modify /etc/pacman.d/offline.conf to your needs by changing or adding packages.

License and warranty

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Upstream

URL: GitHub.com

Mirror: eworm.de GitLab.com