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helleborus

Member

From: Sliedrecht, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-19

Posts: 11

Mix stable unstable sesting branches

I want to mix stable / unstable and testing packages.

How can I control for an individual packages which branch I use?

For example:
- scribus : use always testing
- kenvelop: use always stable (although also available in testing/unstable)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Mix stable unstable sesting branches

- scribus : use always testing

scribus isn't in testing at the moment. If it was, you would have two choices:
- uncomment the testing repo, making sure it's the first in the list in /etc/pacman.conf. This would get you scribus, along with the testing versions of any other packages available at the time.
- uncomment testing, put it at the end of the /etc/pacman.conf list, and do

pacman -Sy testing/scribus

This will get you scribus on its own, but will not work if testing/scribus depends on testing/other_package.

- kenvelop: use always stable (although also available in testing/unstable)

We don't have a package called kenvelop. Apart from that, there is no overlap between packages in extra and those in unstable, so if we did have kenvelop, it would be in one or other, not both. To choose between testing and extra, see above.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Mix stable unstable sesting branches

We don't have a package called kenvelop.

It occurs to me that you may have been referring to kdevelop - if so, it's in extra (only).

helleborus

Member

From: Sliedrecht, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-19

Posts: 11

Re: Mix stable unstable sesting branches

Thanks tomk,

You're right I meant kdevelop, sorry about that.

Wat will happen if a package cannot pull in the rigth dependencies? Do I get a message for that?

I am used to gentoo, but for slower systems (or less compile work :-) ) archlinux is an interesting distro.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Mix stable unstable sesting branches

Wat will happen if a package cannot pull in the rigth dependencies?

You will get an error message when you try to run it.