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All of my packages are actually up to date, since Arch is a rolling release. Even on Xenial there are packages that are behind enough that I notice due to missi

• jlgaddis 10y ago
  You hope they're up to date. If you install / depend on very much from AUR, I'd wager you're probably missing a security update or two.
  • colemickens 10y ago
    AUR packages: local/caddy-full-bin 0.9.3-12, local/kakoune-git r4563.e441295-1, local/kubectl-bin 1.5.1-1, local/neofetch 2.0.2-1, local/package-query 1.8-2, local/tmuxp 1.2.2-1, local/yaourt 1.8.1-1 They're all completely up-to-date (kakaoune might be an exception because it just builds HEAD since there are no releases). I regularly observe AUR getting packages before the equivalent PPAs and before ubuntu packages are even updated. Even for security releases. But you're certainly right, it depends on the given package maintainer. In the rare case that updates take more than a day or two, I just pull the PKGBUILD, edit it, makepkg, pacman -U and I'm done. On the other hand, I could list hundreds of packages that are a version or two behind in Xenial that are update to date in Arch (not even AUR). Maybe not security fixes, but sometimes important bugfixes, etc. For example, Qemu in Xenial, can't make VHDs for Azure, which is constantly a thorn in my side (qemu takes a long time to build from source, even if you disable all non-x86).