arch-sync

I recently released the arch-sync repository, which provides a template for syncing packages and configuration files across multiple Arch Linux installations.

The motivation is simple – to maintain a consistent setup across multiple machines with minimal effort and simplify the overall management of the installations.

With this script, and the following workflow, I can maintain systems with a few simple commands:

$ yay               # this runs yay -Syu by default
$ ./arch-sync.sh    # the arch-sync script referenced above
$ yay -Sc           # clears the pacman cache and locally cached files from the AUR
$ yay -Yc           # removes unneeded dependencies

Regardless of how recently (or not) a system has been updated, the above commands ensure that all machines are in sync.