prep4ud
Speed up Arch Linux system updates via pre-downloading packages (by Cody-Learner)
flexo
a central pacman cache (by nroi)
| prep4ud | flexo | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 3 | |
| 7 | 164 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 4.3 | |
| almost 3 years ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Shell | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
prep4ud
Posts with mentions or reviews of prep4ud.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-24.
- What are cool things in Arch that aren’t that popular.
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Finally set up a proper shared local pacman cache, pacoloco in an nspawn container
I'll also continue to use my script https://github.com/Cody-Learner/prep4ud to pre-download updatable packages to /var/cache/pacman/pkg on each machine.
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Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
Here's a script https://github.com/Cody-Learner/prep4ud to download updates in the background safely. There's also an official package pacman-contrib, which has the checkupdates script, --download option.
- Is there anything I could do so that `pacman`/`paru` show also the current version of the packages that are about to get updated?
- Pacman is so Fast
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Program usage statistics (delete unused programs)
https://github.com/Cody-Learner/prep4ud works pretty well for me.
- What do you run in the terminal when you're bored?
- When will pacman with parallel download capability go 'stable' in the main repo?
flexo
Posts with mentions or reviews of flexo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.
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Finally set up a proper shared local pacman cache, pacoloco in an nspawn container
I’m using flexo in a docker container.
- GitHub - nroi/flexo: a central pacman cache
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How would i make my own local arch caching repo
https://github.com/nroi/flexo works really well on my network.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing prep4ud and flexo you can also consider the following projects:
no-more-secrets - A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
Bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
pacoloco - Caching proxy server for Arch Linux pacman
milcheck - Display the status of your pacman mirrorlist and the Arch Linux lastest news right in your terminal
informant - An Arch Linux News reader and pacman hook
alpm.rs - Rust bindings for libalpm
terminal-parrot
rate-arch-mirrors - Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool (Arch Linux; Manjaro; custom ones)
yai - Your AI powered terminal assistant.
paccat - Print pacman package files
pipes.sh - Animated pipes terminal screensaver
arch-audit-gtk - Arch Linux Security Update Notifications