On Thu, 20 May 2010 23:26:22 +0200, Jim Pryor
<lists+arch-gene...@jimpryor.net> wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:29:41PM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
I'm trying to help with the testing of perl 5.12 but I'd rather not
test every package out there. Is it possible to block certain packages
from being updated from testing? or only allow certain ones? maybe
with a regex? obviously I don't wish to ban them globally. if they
make it into a non testing repo I'm fine with it.
(This should be a sticky in the forum.)
There are exactly two safe options with respect to testing.
1. Update everything from testing. Actually this is a bit overkill. If
you just want to update a package Z, it'd be enough to update Z from
testing, and also any of its dependencies Y that are also in testing,
and also anything in testing that depends on either Z or any of the Ys.
2. The other safe option is to install *none* of the binary updates from
testing. Instead, grab the new PKGBUILD for Z from /var/abs/testing/,
and makepkg it yourself, against the other packages and libraries you've
already got installed.
There is a number 3.
3. Add [testing] and do a pacman -Sy package-you-like. It will install the
latest package from testing and its dependencies. Remove [testing] again
and you can go on using your non-testing system. I don't know if it is
fail-proof but it worked for me with xorg-server (to 1.8). When I'm doing
a pacman -Syu it just says that the packages installed are newer and
therefore doesn't update these certain packages.
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