archinstall VS informant

Link to GitHub repo which has more info about the installer: https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall

Archinstall (https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall) has been present in the official Arch package sources for some time. This should shorten the installation time. Just as a hint. :-)

$ pacman -Si archinstall | awk '{print " "$0}' Repository : extra Name : archinstall Version : 2.1.1-1 Description : Just another guided/automated Arch Linux installer with a twist Architecture : any URL : https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : python-archinstall Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 10.98 KiB Installed Size : 8.10 KiB Packager : Giancarlo Razzolini Build Date : Thu 28 Jan 2021 02:50:19 AM PST Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

However, the installation of vanilla Arch is basically not difficult either. And for some time now, archinstall has been included in the official package sources, which can simplify the installation.

That's for you to decide. Basically, the installation of Arch consists to a large extent only of executing the commands mentioned in the official instructions. In addition, Archinstall (https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall) has recently been added to the official package sources which makes installation simpler.

Seems like it is designed to do both equally well. Has a guided installer and functions as a python library for installing arch and whatnot programmatically. https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall

Crap. Seems like I linked to the wrong repository. Correct is probably https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall.

Just to inform, a fix has been merged: PR #84: reworked kde.py to use sddm instead of hacking xinitrc and will be in v2.1.1 this weekend :) Thanks for reporting and pointing this out!

It blocks your updates when there's Arch newsfeed updates that you haven't read, prints it to terminal and then you just need to mark the latest news as read for your updates to go through. It's rare enough that it's not a bother, while this news can contain crucial information about what needs manual intervention and how. https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant

You can install Informant

Not sure about any EndeavourOS specific solution, but informant as a pacman hook gets you all the unread Arch news items before upgrading.

Before an update, I check if something has been released at https://archlinux.org/news/ that affects my own installation. If so, this has to be taken into account. For automatic checking there are tools like informant (https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant).

informant is very useful to me. It shows you any news articles from the site that you haven't read, before updating. This is how I make sure I don't miss any news updates.

Informant (from the AUR) gives you a few commands to check the arch news and includes a pacman hook that blocks transactions if there are unread news.

Don't automate updates, bad idea. Use a hook like https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant You will be fine not updating for a month.

I highly recommend Informant. It's basically a hook into pacman that checks Arch news before installing anything, and if there is a new message you are forced to read it before you can proceed.