Hi all, Well, downgrading my 3.8 VM to 3.6 didn't work (downgrading the `gnome-shell` package suspiciously only downgraded that package and nothing else; I had hoped it would hunt down all the dependencies and downgrade them appropriately too, but it didn't); now when I boot I get various errors about missing libraries to do with 3.4. Not too surprising.
Also, since Arch does rolling releases it appears I can't tell pacman to upgrade the gnome-shell package by just one or two steps instead of the whole way. Clemens.......because that would make way too much sense, obviously. (d'oh!) I prefer Arch and I notice they still have a snapshot from a few months ago available (3.10 shouldn't have been on it yet), so I can try that (though since gnome-shell does not ship with Arch I suspect I will get the same problem that when I install it, it will update it to 3.10 automatically). Failing that, I'll just grab Fedora or Mageia. thanks all, Amy On 26 October 2013 01:40, Yaa101 <yaa...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi Amy, > > Dunno about Arch, but Mageia 3 ships with Gnome Shell 3.6 > Mageia will skip 3.8 and will ship 3.10 with Mageia 4. > > -- > (o_ > //\ Regards, Groeten, > V_/_ Bas Burger. > > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:17:35 +1000 > Amy <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Some notes: > > > > * I would rather take my GNOME 3.4 snapshot and upgrade it to 3.6, > > rather than taking my 3.8 snapshot and downgrading to 3.6 (since the > > [Downgrading Packages][0] page on the Arch wiki says not to downgrade > > packages if possible). > > * I will certainly add gnome and gnome-extra to IgnoreGroup on all my > > VMs to freeze the versions as they are -- thanks! However I can't do > > this until I have a 3.6 VM. > > > > I guess it doesn't matter if I mess around with the downgrading > > though, because I can just take lots of snapshots to restore to :) > > > > I will play with a few methods (I think I need to keep searching the > > Arch wiki for ways to upgrade to a specific version rather than > > downgrade to a specific version, but failing that I'll downgrade from > > 3.8) and report back. > > > > cheers > > Amy > > > > [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages > > > > > > On 25 October 2013 17:00, Joni Kurunsaari <joni.kurunsa...@kapsi.fi> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Amy, > > > > > > I would try add package groups gnome and gnome-extra to IgnoreGroup > > > line which can be found from pacman config file /etc/pacman.conf. > > > Also you should add other gnome version dependent packages to > > > IgnorePkg line. I have not tried this by myself, so please take > > > snapshot or backup before trying upgrade with ignore options. > > > > > > More info on Arch Linux wiki: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Skip_package_group_from_being_upgraded > > > > > > Maybe someone else can confirm that this is right way to do this? > > > > > > -Joni > > > > > > 10/25/13 08:16:54, Amy <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu 13.10 and I now realise > > > that I have no machine with GNOME 3.6 on it for playing around with > > > stuff. > > > > > > I have a VM each with ArchLinux: GNOME 3.2, 3.4 and 3.8, but none > > > with 3.6 (was using my main laptop for it). > > > > > > Perhaps this is more of an Arch question, but is there any way I > > > can grab (say) the 3.4 VM and 'pacman -Syu' to upgrade it, *but* > > > get it to stop at GNOME 3.6 instead of overshooting to 3.10 (or > > > 3.8, whatever is the latest version in the repos)? (Previously > > > whenever a new GNOME version is released, I grab my latest VM, > > > clone it, and 'pacman -Syu' it to get it to the new version, giving > > > me a VM with that version). > > > > > > cheers, > > > Amy > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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