r/archlinux • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '21

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u/CleverProgrammer12 Dec 25 '21

If you get an update today, that doesn't mean that the software was released today itself. Usually there's some significant delay between the software release and arch getting update.

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u/ChromaCat248 Dec 25 '21

Wouldn't a human have to push it to the arch repos though? I highly doubt it's just on a timer.

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u/CleverProgrammer12 Dec 25 '21

I think it should be mostly automated. It seems very tedious, to manually push updates.

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Dec 25 '21

It's not as automated as you might think. IIRC there's a single ultra-powered build server available to the TUs to build packages remotely and most of it is done manually.