A repo package that replaces something an installed AUR package still depends
on aborted the entire transaction, and would have done so on every subsequent
run - one stale AUR package was enough to cut a machine off from all updates
indefinitely. Observed in the wild: percona-server-clients replaces
libperconaserverclient without providing it, while heidisql-qt6-bin hard-depends
on it, blocking 213 unrelated package updates.
pacman names the offending package in its dependency errors, so it is now
extracted and passed to --ignore for one retry: the other 213 packages go
through and the blocker is reported. The hold is per-run, never written to
IgnorePkg, so it disappears by itself once upstream catches up.
The single retry is also now a bounded recovery loop, because fixing one
problem regularly uncovers the next - a conflict resolved with --ask=20 can
surface a dependency error behind it. Each remedy is applied at most once.
The held-back set is shown in the menu and notified only when it changes, so a
blocker waiting on an upstream fix does not produce the same message daily.
Toggling automatic updates or notifications returned to a 'press any key'
prompt for no reason - the status block at the top of the menu already shows
the new state. cau_bad and cau_note now flag that they printed something, so
the acknowledgement only appears when there is genuinely something to read
(a failed sudoers check, a missing AUR helper) instead of after every toggle.
Also stops Enter from quitting the menu (it used to share the quit branch with
q) and swallows the tail of an escape sequence, so one arrow key redraws once
rather than three times and never closes the menu.
- The runner now forces LC_ALL=C itself instead of relying on the unit's
Environment=. pacman failures are classified by matching its output, so a
run started by hand on a German system was misclassifying every failure.
- 'Update now' in the menu exec'd the runner, which terminated the menu.
- Log a distinct message when checkupdates is unavailable, instead of
claiming zero pending packages before a full upgrade.
A root systemd service applies pacman, AUR, Flatpak and AppImage updates on
its own, gated on battery state, gaming activity and whether anybody else is
using the package system. The CLI is deliberately two switches plus status.
No user password is stored anywhere: pacman runs as root directly, and the AUR
step - which makepkg forbids running as root - drops to a locked system account
that sudoers permits to call pacman without a password.
Felitendo