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serat

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Registered: 2020-01-19

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[closed] a way to specify minimal version for upgrading a package?

When I do "pacman -Syu," it tells me that I have a package that can be upgraded, say from 3.25.1-1 to 3.25.1-2. Is there a way to ask pacman not to upgrade the package till its version goes up by some specific number.

For instance, in my pacman.conf, can I do something like
IgnorePkg = pkg-name<3.25.2

or something similar to ignore packages till its version moves up sufficiently?

Last edited by serat (2020-08-22 16:43:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [closed] a way to specify minimal version for upgrading a package?

No, but if you add it to ignore you will be warned every time you update.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,090

Re: [closed] a way to specify minimal version for upgrading a package?

If you build the newer version locally pacman will not downgrade the package to the version in the repositories unless -u is used twice.
You would also have to rebuild all packages that require one for the new version of the package you updated.

Last edited by loqs (2020-01-22 20:55:28)