I unironically pacman -Syu’d today and it broke 3 applications that depended on ffmpeg (yes it did update ffmpeg correctly) all from official repos
Tried to build them all from source for like an hour but the compilation also fails, ended up symlinking the libavcodec.so into it’s previous’ version name and everything works again with zero issues (who designed this shit?)
Add a pacman hook to create a btrfs snapshot before ever update, if anything stupid breaks, rollback to the snapshot and wait a week for it to get fixed before trying again.
That would be “snap-pac” for anyone wondering, thanks for the tip but my system is not on btrfs yet, I did try all of it on a VM though so that’s my next reinstallation for sure
Add a pacman hook to create a btrfs snapshot before every update, if anything stupid breaks, rollback to the snapshot and wait a week for it to get fixed before trying again.
I unironically pacman -Syu’d today and it broke 3 applications that depended on ffmpeg (yes it did update ffmpeg correctly) all from official repos
Tried to build them all from source for like an hour but the compilation also fails, ended up symlinking the libavcodec.so into it’s previous’ version name and everything works again with zero issues (who designed this shit?)
Add a pacman hook to create a btrfs snapshot before ever update, if anything stupid breaks, rollback to the snapshot and wait a week for it to get fixed before trying again.
That would be “snap-pac” for anyone wondering, thanks for the tip but my system is not on btrfs yet, I did try all of it on a VM though so that’s my next reinstallation for sure
Add a pacman hook to create a btrfs snapshot before every update, if anything stupid breaks, rollback to the snapshot and wait a week for it to get fixed before trying again.