Official Jellyfin documentation prompts the usage of unsafe flags under Arch

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Official Jellyfin documentation prompts the usage of unsafe flags under Arch - Host-in-the-Shell - 2023-07-08

I'm not too sure where to report this, since I don't want to fork the documentation on github as it is not my platform of choice. Hopefully here it can be seen by somebody that can change it.

While reading the docs, I've noticed several instances [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] (not sure if there are more) where the documentation prompts the user to input unsafe flags by running:

Code:
pacman -Sy

As per the Arch wiki:

Quote:Warning: When installing packages in Arch, avoid refreshing the package list without upgrading the system (for example, when a package is no longer found in the official repositories). In practice, do not run pacman -Sy package_name instead of pacman -Syu package_name, as this could lead to dependency issues.

You can read more about it here.

The correct command should be:

Code:
pacman -Syu

This should be addressed in the docs, as the -Sy flag can cause system breakage.

[1] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/amd#verify-on-linux
[2] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/intel#verify-on-linux
[3] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/intel#configure-and-verify-lp-mode-on-linux
[4] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/amd#arch-linux
[5] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/nvidia#arch-linux
[6] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/intel#arch-linux

RE: Official Jellyfin documentation prompts the usage of unsafe flags under Arch - Shadowghost - 2023-07-08

Thanks for the report, I created a PR fixing it: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin.org/pull/589

RE: Official Jellyfin documentation prompts the usage of unsafe flags under Arch - Host-in-the-Shell - 2023-07-08

Thank you for addressing the issue. I hadn't noticed it before because my Jellyfin runs on a Debian box, so I hadn't read the instructions for Arch.