cachy-auto-update

Unattended background updates for CachyOS.

pacman, AUR, Flatpak and AppImages. In the background, with no password prompt.

Install | How to use | Report a bug

Install

paru -S cachy-auto-update
sudo cachy-auto-update enable

How to use

sudo cachy-auto-update

Press 1 to turn automatic updates on or off. 6 has all the settings.

When does it update?

Battery below 30 %	⏸️ Waits (on power it runs)
A game is running	⏸️ Waits
pacman, yay or paru is running	⏸️ Waits
Shutdown or suspend during an update	🚫 Blocked until it is done
Restart after an update	❌ Never on its own, you get a notification

More

What it updates

Packages	pacman -Syu
AUR	paru or yay
Flatpak	system and user installs
AppImages	through Gear Lever

Safety

• A progress bar shows the step and the package.
• On Btrfs with snapper (the CachyOS default) every update gets a snapshot before and after.
• A lock file left by a power cut is removed on the next run.
• Package replacements are handled on their own. File conflicts are never overwritten.
• A signature error refreshes the keyring once and tries again.

Logs

cachy-auto-update log        # last run
cachy-auto-update log -a     # all runs
journalctl -u cachy-auto-update

cachy-update

cachy-update tells you about updates, you install them. This installs them for you. Both work side by side, and enable offers to silence cachy-update's notification.

Build from source

make && sudo make install
sudo systemd-sysusers && sudo systemd-tmpfiles --create
sudo cachy-auto-update enable

Optional: pacman-contrib, an AUR helper, flatpak, Gear Lever, libnotify, python-gobject.

GPL-3.0-or-later.