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An Arch Linux News reader and pacman hook (by bradford-smith94)

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informant		Important-news
	Project
20	Mentions	1
232	Stars	11
-	Growth	-
2.2	Activity	6.3
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
Python	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

informant

Posts with mentions or reviews of informant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

As An Arch User, I find this incredibly True.
2 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 9 Dec 2023

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
What are cool things in Arch that aren’t that popular.
3 projects | /r/archlinux | 24 Jun 2023
Considering Arch for future use but have one concern
3 projects | /r/archlinux | 4 Jun 2023

You can install Informant
Getting 'error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))' during update
2 projects | /r/EndeavourOS | 29 May 2023

Not sure about any EndeavourOS specific solution, but informant as a pacman hook gets you all the unread Arch news items before upgrading.
Does anyone have experience/thoughts on going from Debian to Arch for my daily driver?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 21 May 2023

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).
Is Arch a good distro if you don't want to do due diligence on updates?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 14 May 2023

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.
Is there anything like Gentoos "news" function in portage, that notifies you directly of any manual changes that you might need to make to your system in an update?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 21 Mar 2023

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.
Arch & Manjaro. Is it a bad idea to have a systemd timer automatically update the system every day when I will be away for like a week?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Feb 2023

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.
If I don't update my system for a while do I need to just update the keyring?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 15 Jan 2023

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.
Simple script to always check up arch news before updating system
1 project | /r/suckless | 15 Jan 2023

Important-news

Posts with mentions or reviews of Important-news. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-29.

Getting 'error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))' during update
2 projects | /r/EndeavourOS | 29 May 2023

Ah I didn't consider that. Not sure there is a built in way to do it, but here is how they do it. You may be able to parse some info from here https://github.com/endeavouros-team/Important-news

What are some alternatives?

When comparing informant and Important-news you can also consider the following projects:

archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.

bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications

paru - Feature packed AUR helper

Stream-Framework - Stream Framework is a Python library, which allows you to build news feed, activity streams and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis. The authors of Stream-Framework also provide a cloud service for feed technology:

archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc. [Moved to: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall]

dotfiles - 🍒 My daily Arch Linux setup

prep4ud - Speed up Arch Linux system updates via pre-downloading packages

pacpush - Arch Linux utility to push a host's package and AUR caches to other hosts

django-activity-stream - Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site. Users can follow any actors' activities for personalized streams.

yai - Your AI powered terminal assistant.

archweb - Arch Linux website code