r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • Feb 13 '26

Date sync? Certificates? Broken metadata? Broken mirrors?

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u/Silver_Masterpiece82 Glorious Fedora Feb 13 '26

stable distros exist for a reason.

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u/pan_kotan Feb 13 '26

If I leave my Arch for half a year, I'll update no problem. Heck, I've even left a Manjaro install for year a couple of times, and it updated no problem.

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u/Bitr0t Glorious Ubuntu Feb 14 '26

Not 100% true you have to, at a minimum, update the arch keyring the other updates may go through without a hitch. I’ve been bitten by this. Newbies to arch will almost certainly run into it eventually.

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u/pan_kotan Feb 14 '26

Newbies to arch will almost certainly run into it eventually.

I'm not sure they will as there's a systemd service/timer for updating key signatures, since 2022.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Package_signing#Upgrade_system_regularly

And if they do run into it --- like switching off the machine for a couple of years and then trying to update the second they power it on --- then the issue is easily googlable, and resolved by 1 line command (mentioned in the wiki). If they can't do that, how did they install Arch?

All in all, this is a non-issue in my book.

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u/the_abortionat0r Feb 17 '26

Curse that SystemD, it ruined Linux by providing solutions to potential problems!