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#1 2008-03-19 16:55:39
- Robertek
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Use testing branch but not on all packages.
I use testing branch w/o no problem but I want to disable some packages being fetched from testing in favour of core/extra. For example openoffice-base (I want stable oo). Is there some way to select packages that are not get from testing?
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#2 2008-03-19 17:16:14
- tigrmesh
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Re: Use testing branch but not on all packages.
You can look for NoUpgrade in man pacman.conf
Warning: this might break your system.
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#3 2008-03-21 11:28:05
- mfa
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Re: Use testing branch but not on all packages.
Hi there.
I don't have a general solution to this, but for one package you might want to try the following:
If a package name exists in more than one repo, the repo can be explicitly specified to clarify the package to install: pacman -S testing/qt
Taken from the manpage of pacman.
So if you want to explicitly install openoffice from the "stable" repositories you might want to do this with
pacman -S extra/openoffice-baseI don't know whats happening when updating, unfortunately, but I guess pacman will try to update the package from the same repository it was installed.
Cheers,
mfa
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#4 2008-03-21 11:50:31
- Allan
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Re: Use testing branch but not on all packages.
Be warned that using only some of testing is not supported. You will have to make sure you have all the dependencies sorted out for yourself and then all packages that use those dependencies will need installed from testing as well...
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