packages.artixlinux.org shows outdated package versions, confusing the newcomers

18 December 2022, 20:48:18

While I have been promoting your wonderful Artix distro to my friend, he did a package search for linux-hardened - and, probably because of an outdated package index, it displayed "5.15.31.hardened1-1 2022-03-25" to him. So my friend thought that Artix ships outdated Linux kernels and therefore is insecure; and - since I was away from my PC, it took me some time to resolve this confusion and tell I'm on a 6.0 kernel and everything else is new too...

Maybe this issue doesn't seem major to you, but we may be losing potential newcomers who got confused by this and no-one was around to clarify

Re: packages.artixlinux.org shows outdated package versions, confusing the newcomers

Reply #1 – 18 December 2022, 21:24:54

yea, that page is pretty much out of sync....however, top right in it, sources, does give the current info. Not sure why the first page is actually visible, maybe just remove that entry from the main page altogether, as that would solve the confusion that comes up once in a while for folks?

https://gitea.artixlinux.org/explore/repos