Three review findings on the update-hook boundary:
The pre-refresh-pacman hook had been moved after the refresh transaction
and, during a channel switch, deferred to the very end. That defeated the
hook's purpose: custom repositories and IgnorePkg entries were not in
place when the downgrade-capable -Syyuu ran. Run the hook where it used
to run, after the package config is re-synced and before the transaction,
but cold: revoke the timestamp, run it behind the no-update wrapper with
the caller's original PATH, and revoke again before continuing. Every
later privileged command authenticates with --no-update, so a detached
child left by the hook has no reusable timestamp to wait for. Channel
switching hands the caller's PATH to the refresh the same way the updater
receives it, and no longer defers or re-runs the hook.
Stay Awake was released before AUR builds, hooks and mise, so the machine
could sleep during the longest part of an update. Releasing the inhibitor
needs no privilege because the held command already dropped to the user,
so stop it after mise and before the reboot prompt, as before.
A packaged channel destination cannot be inspected before its package is
installed, and a transaction can replace the running tree with a release
that predates the command-scoped wrapper; from then on a bare sudo would
resolve to /usr/bin/sudo and publish a timestamp, and the destination's
own updater authenticates the same way. The switch used to abort only
after the packages had changed, with generic rerun advice. Now it checks
for the wrapper after each transaction before any further privileged
step, completes what it safely can, and stops cold with instructions to
run that release's update from a fresh session instead of launching it.
Boundary tests pin the hook between the config copies and the transaction
with a cold timestamp on both sides, the older-destination stop with its
guidance and no launched updater, the new inhibitor position, and the
post-update hook staying unreached on failures and signals. Docs, the
manual and the sample hook describe the restored timing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pacman answers its own conflict question with No under --noconfirm, so one
retired package can stop every update after it. Which package to drop is a
decision rather than a cleanup, so run the upgrade again with pacman asking
when there is a terminal to answer on, and report instead when -y promised
not to ask.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
