Bradford Smith
Bradford Smith
Possible duplicate of #39, try rebuilding informant after the Python 3.10.1 update.
True, I hadn't really considered it in that way before. Informant's intent is that after the user reads the news they will re-run `pacman -Syu` to complete the upgrade, but...
Thanks for using informant! What you describe is expected. This is a side-effect of the included pacman hook. When it runs it needs to make a web request to https://archlinux.org/feeds/news...
I haven't come up with any ideas to make it faster. Some sort of caching could help with multiple calls to informant in a short time period, but it also...
Caching added in AUR version `0.2.0-1`.
Currently informant defaults to persisting information in `/var/cache/informant.dat` which unless you change the permissions on require superuser privileges to access. It should probably be switched to save in `~/.cache/` or...
I remember the design choice for using `/var/cache/informant.dat`. I originally designed it this way because of having it run as a pacman hook. When pacman is running the hook it...
@codeclem I would be interested in such a PR. The installation stuff is currently done in the PKGBUILD so you'd have to fork the git tree in the AUR for...
As of the latest AUR version `0.1.0-2` you should be able to add your user to the "informant" group in order to avoid using sudo.
The reason I recommend the `informant` group instead of changing the default save location is because of the pacman hook functionality. When the pacman runs the hook the script (unless...