Checkupdates is a good tool avoiding any need for period pacman -Sy
jobs from root crontab, however it works by maintaining its own
database in /tmp by default (and _that_ is a tmpfs by default) so on
every initialization it would stall awesome until it makes the first
sync. Better approach would be to keep its db inside $HOME for
persistence, and then to initiate the first (and longest) sync
manually before converting your package widgets to "Arch C".
All this is the reason I can't recommend it as the default right
now...
This commit adds support for mandriva tools in the pkg widget through
the use of urpmq --auto-select. Note: this command only checks for
hdlists files available on the computer. To get "live" statistics one
should run urpmi.update which has to be run with higher privileges.
Signed-off-by: Adrian C. (anrxc) <anrxc@sysphere.org>
Adrian C. (anrxc)
Andrea Scarpino
Arvydas Sidorenko
Rémy CLOUARD