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#1 2013-03-01 14:31:43

justdanyul
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Is it possible to add priority to packages?

Say, if I wanted to ensure that updates to package A where applied before updates to B are applied, would this be possible with pacman?

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#2 2013-03-01 14:36:31

Mr.Elendig
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

Short story; No
Long Story; version deps (sort of)

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2013-03-01 14:37:08)


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#3 2013-03-01 14:44:42

x33a
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

See SyncFirst in pacman.conf

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#4 2013-03-01 15:08:42

Mr.Elendig
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

SyncFirst is semi-broken. It doesn't handle deps correctly


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#5 2013-03-01 17:22:34

x33a
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

Well, I have only seen it in action with pacman tongue

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#6 2013-03-01 17:40:58

ball
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

Citing Allan McRae

[...] a feature of pacman called SyncFirst that is removed for the upcoming pacman-4.1 [...]

(Source: http://allanmcrae.com/2012/12/battle-of … spin-offs/ )

I don't think one should rely on SyncFirst...

Last edited by ball (2013-03-01 17:41:16)

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#7 2013-03-01 17:45:28

WonderWoofy
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

ball wrote:

Citing Allan McRae

[...] a feature of pacman called SyncFirst that is removed for the upcoming pacman-4.1 [...]

(Source: http://allanmcrae.com/2012/12/battle-of … spin-offs/ )

I don't think one should rely on SyncFirst...

Allan broke it? smile

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#8 2013-03-01 17:53:27

Allan
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

Allan removed it...

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#9 2013-03-01 18:19:28

tomk
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Registered: 2004-07-21
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Re: Is it possible to add priority to packages?

pacman -Syu --ignore pkgB ; pacman -S pkgB

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