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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

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Pacman repo ordering

This is just a genuine curiosity (though it may or may not have had a practical application).

There was a thread earlier today - perhaps this morning (and I can't find it again) which got me looking at the Arch Wiki about Repos. The one thing I took away, as a testing user, was that the testing repo should be at the top.

At the same time, the xorg testing update had been posted to the dev ML, and so I was aware of the dumping of various xorg stuff. I tried an update this morning, which failed because of dependency problems. Since I had to go to work, I put it on the back burner. Tonight, I revisited pacman.conf, and moved all testing (testing, community-testing and lib32-testing) repos to the top, and updated again, which worked without a glitch (and I'm still here after a reboot, so life's good).

So, how important is the order of repos in pacman.conf on a day to day basis. Surely, if core is above testing, an update will still pick the testing update as the latest, or .......?

EDIT: To correct extra to lib32

Last edited by Roken (2016-12-13 22:18:46)

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WorMzy

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Re: Pacman repo ordering

Repositories are distinguished between official and unofficial. The order of repositories in the configuration file matters; repositories listed first will take precedence over those listed later in the file when packages in two repositories have identical names, regardless of version number. In order to use a repository after adding it, you will need to upgrade the whole system first.

Mod note: Not an App/DE topic, moving to pacman discussion.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Pacman repo ordering

I have this order, it has been working for some time now:

[testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

I did have [staging] enabled (to get Xorg 1.19 early) and I put that above [testing].

IIRC, that order was in the stock file and I just un-commented the relevant entries.

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,358

Re: Pacman repo ordering

OK. I missed the bit about ignoring despite versioning when I read this morning.

How have I managed to go so long with potentially mismatched versions and very few problems? (rhetorical)

Thank you. At least going forward I'm correct.

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