System Maintenance

General Recommendation

Partial updates/upgrades are unsupported

So the general recommendation when updating and installing packages - as to prevent partial updates/upgrades - is as follows:

• Do not make temporary branch changes and mix in packages from other branches. It is - we believe - one cause of partial updates which can break systems.

• Do a full system update after changing branch or updating your mirrorlist

sudo pacman -Syyu

• When you install a package update your system

sudo pacman -Syu some-package-name

• The use of pacman downgrade option is discouraged as it might not solve an issue but could cause other issues.