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synthead

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From: Seattle

Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,319

Searching and installing packages from testing w/o editing pacman.conf

Is this possible?

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tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 792

Re: Searching and installing packages from testing w/o editing pacman.conf

It looks like there are 2 1/2 ways to do it.

1) Enable testing in /etc/abs/abs.conf & use abs to create the packages.

2) Download packages from ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/testing/os/

2 1/2) Enable the testing repo, but move it to the bottom of pacman.conf.  Testing packages will need to be explicitly requested - something like
pacman -S testing/pkgname

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: Searching and installing packages from testing w/o editing pacman.conf

Installing individual packages from the testing repo is not recommended as they are likely to depend on testing versions of other packages. The only supported way of using the testing repo is to enable it at the top of the list in pacman.conf.

Nuwanda

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From: Montevideo, Uruguay

Registered: 2008-01-04

Posts: 22

Re: Searching and installing packages from testing w/o editing pacman.conf

Installing individual packages from the testing repo is not recommended as they are likely to depend on testing versions of other packages. The only supported way of using the testing repo is to enable it at the top of the list in pacman.conf.

I don't understand why that is true.

If I enable the testing repo and update a package (pacman -S package), and if the dependencies are set correctly, the dependencies from testing needed should also be installed/updated, right?

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: Searching and installing packages from testing w/o editing pacman.conf

Right - but only if testing is at the top of the list in pacman.conf, as I already said.