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jaro

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Registered: 2013-10-10

Posts: 25

prevent package from ugrading

Hi
How can I prevent a specific package from upgrading ?

thanks for information

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: prevent package from ugrading

All of the information you need is in the pacman.conf man page

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: prevent package from ugrading

What package would that be and why? Partial upgrades are unsupported.

fsckd

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Re: prevent package from ugrading

Moving from Applications & Desktop Environments to Newbie Corner.

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teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

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Re: prevent package from ugrading

Example:
/etc/pacman.conf

IgnorePkg=firefox
IgnorePkg=thunderbird
IgnorePkg=linux
IgnorePkg=wine

Be advised some packages can be ignored for a while.
Ignoring other packages will break your application or OS.
Partial upgrades are unsupported so you are on your own to fix it.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: prevent package from ugrading

Example:
/etc/pacman.conf

IgnorePkg=firefox thunderbird linux wine

FTFY...

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jaro

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Registered: 2013-10-10

Posts: 25

Re: prevent package from ugrading

Thanks for the reply.

It is the virtualbox package that I want to prevent from upgrading.
I experience aborting all my virtual machines at startup.
Most probably it is known issue described here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1456395

All newewer releases of VB than 4.3.14-4 seem to be vulnerable.
I need to find a moment to check this out.

Again, great thanks for all your help.