This is an observation, not a complaint (overall I quite like Garuda and particularly appreciate the good job done to make snapper boot possible).
I like to use the Arch testing repositories (core-testing, extra-testing, multilib-testing, and gnome-unstable). I know this is not generally recommended, but I enjoy seeing what the very latest packages are and I’ve used Arch for quite awhile and am comfortable fixing my system if needed.
I would happily use garuda-update as I appreciate what it does, however it always overwrites the /etc/pacman.conf file and replaces “core-testing” in pacman.conf with “testing”, which it then subsquently can’t find when it runs the update process. I wonder if a switch could be added to the command line to tell garuda-update to leave the pacman.conf file alone? I can certainly appreciate if my use case is so unusual that it’s deemed that this is not useful for Garuda. I can do what I want just using yay to update if that is the case.
The intention of this part of the code is to identify if the user has any of the deprecated repositories in /etc/pacman.conf (see this related announcement: Arch Linux - News: Cleaning up old repositories), and if a deprecated repo is found it gets changed to a current repo.
Unfortunately the core-testing block in this script has a little oopsie, in that the values for testing and core-testing have been accidentally reversed. In other words, the script should be checking for [testing] and changing it to [core-testing], not the other way around.
If you’d like to fix this on your own, edit /usr/lib/garuda/garuda-update/update-helper-scripts, scroll down to line 122, and change [core-testing] to [testing] and vice-versa so the if statement looks like this:
else if ($0 == "[testing]")
{
print "[core-testing]"
err=0
next
}
I’ll work on getting this straightened out in the repo, so the actual package gets fixed as well.
Wow! Thank you so much for your really nice explanation. I will make the change in my local version for now and look for the change in the repo. Kind regards
