Mostly nothing, but I did have issues once where a package changed but couldn’t be installed due to failing verification as the keyring wasn’t updated. That killed the desktop environment on boot but dropping into the console and updating the keyring specifically before trying the full update again fixed things.
After a while, but probably more than a month, you would need to refresh your keys as the ones that your system trusts would not match the signatures on what is being downloaded from the repo and you would be getting signature errors.
You’d just install archlinux-keyring first, and then do a full system upgrade. If that didn’t work you could refresh the keys with pacman-key (pacman-key --refresh-keys) and then install archlinux-keyring->upgrade.
Your system would work fine without updating, though I guess eventually a new version of HTML will come out in a decade or so and your browser won’t support it… but until then you’d be fine(security issues aside).
Arch is trash.
Arch is nice… but i would love someone to tell me what happens if i stop updating for a month or something of the like
Mostly nothing, but I did have issues once where a package changed but couldn’t be installed due to failing verification as the keyring wasn’t updated. That killed the desktop environment on boot but dropping into the console and updating the keyring specifically before trying the full update again fixed things.
After a while, but probably more than a month, you would need to refresh your keys as the ones that your system trusts would not match the signatures on what is being downloaded from the repo and you would be getting signature errors.
You’d just install archlinux-keyring first, and then do a full system upgrade. If that didn’t work you could refresh the keys with pacman-key (pacman-key --refresh-keys) and then install archlinux-keyring->upgrade.
Your system would work fine without updating, though I guess eventually a new version of HTML will come out in a decade or so and your browser won’t support it… but until then you’d be fine(security issues aside).
so brave