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CarbonChauvinist

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Registered: 2012-06-16

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Re: How to use archlinuxcn for only one application?

I'll propose yet another solution, add the archlinuxcn repo to the main conf file but with "Usage = Sync Search" and packages will never be installed from there unless you do "pacman -S archlinuxcn/chromium-vaapi" with the "archlinuxcn/" prefix to the package name.

I actually thought of this as a suggestion, but decided not to post as I wasn't sure how proper it was.

I've actually done what you've described with testing just to satisfy my curiosity and always be able to see what's on testing with a quick `pacman -Sl {community-,}testing`. Also used to cheekily install mesa when wanted to preview the update to the new version before it was in core.

$ cat /etc/pacman.conf 
...
[testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Usage = Sync Search
...
[community-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Usage = Sync Search
...

Last edited by CarbonChauvinist (2020-04-14 04:17:18)

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: How to use archlinuxcn for only one application?

I actually thought of this as a suggestion, but decided not to post as I wasn't sure how proper it was.

I've actually done what you've described with testing just to satisfy my curiosity and always be able to see what's on testing with a quick `pacman -Sl {community-,}testing`. Also used to cheekily install mesa when wanted to preview the update to the new version before it was in core.

It's plenty kosher, we "cheekily" do the same thing on the www.archlinux.org infrastructure: https://git.archlinux.org/infrastructur … an.conf.j2

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