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lmello

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 300

PackageKit and pacman.conf - IgnorePkg

Hi,

I'm trying out GNOME Software on Arch. I know it uses PackageKit and one thing does not seem right - I have one package in the IgnorePkg array in /etc/pacman.conf. pacman -Syu always ignores that one. I see that /etc/PackageKit/alpm.d/pacman.conf has a line:

Include = /etc/pacman.conf

So it should also tell PackageKit daemon to ignore that package update. However, I still get notifications of that particular package update in the Arch repo's.

A bug or misconfiguration?

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: PackageKit and pacman.conf - IgnorePkg

Notifications and installations are two different things - pacman on its own will also give you notifications about ignored packages, it just won't install them.

Does GNOME Software actually update the ignored package?

lmello

Member

From: Brazil

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 300

Re: PackageKit and pacman.conf - IgnorePkg

Notifications and installations are two different things - pacman on its own will also give you notifications about ignored packages, it just won't install them.

Does GNOME Software actually update the ignored package?

Yes, it puts the package on the update queue.

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Second Digital Deduction: Everything go wrong at least once.
Third Digital Deduction: Things go wrong even when there's absolutely no possibility of anything go wrong.

jm2

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Registered: 2013-06-13

Posts: 7

Re: PackageKit and pacman.conf - IgnorePkg

Yup, I can confirm that packagekit via gnome-software completely disregards IgnorePkg and installs those ignored updates automatically anyway, which is obnoxious behavior. I guess it's time to file a bug.

Last edited by jm2 (2015-07-19 06:48:48)