On 01/31/14 at 12:55pm, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 01/30/2014 06:58 PM, Curtis Shimamoto wrote:
> >You shouldn't tell people to ever do just '-Sy'. This can lead to
> >partial updates and potential breakage.
> 
> Well, that was in the context of just having added:
> 
> [trinity]
> SigLevel = Never
> Server = http://trinity.ceux.org/r14/x86_64
> 
> Without the 'y' there would be nothing to see??
> 

It is just never safe to do just a 'pacman -Sy' without the --upgrade,
as that has the potential to lead to partial upgrades.[0]

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported

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Curtis Shimamoto

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