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lost eden

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Registered: 2008-01-01

Posts: 62

pacman -Syu *without* updating KDE 3.5 to 4.1?

I'm using KDE 3.5 atm, but don't have the time right now to fully read up & prepare for the upgrade to 4.1 (a quick scan of the news release & it looks like there may be quite a few problems). But I still want the rest of my system to be up to date. I've read the man page for pacman & searched the wiki, but can't see any way to update the rest of my system but leave KDE at 3.5 - is there a way, or do I just have to leave all updates until I have the time to make the move to 4.1 properly (which will be September)?

VincentV

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 31

Re: pacman -Syu *without* updating KDE 3.5 to 4.1?

I hear ya, I have Arch on my work machine so I gotta wait until it's calm to play with a new KDE.  I gathered this info from the "Announcements", (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52271) you might wanna check that out.  Here's what I did:

vi /etc/pacman.conf

Then I added the following lines, in the "options" section:

IgnoreGroup = kde
IgnorePkg   = archlinux-themes-kdm
IgnorePkg   = kde-common
IgnorePkg   = kmplayer
IgnorePkg   = ktorrent
IgnorePkg   = kdelibs3
IgnorePkg   = amarok-engine-xine
IgnorePkg   = amarok-base
IgnorePkg   = gtk-qt-engine
IgnorePkg   = k3b
IgnorePkg   = kaffeine
IgnorePkg   = krename
IgnorePkg   = ksensors
IgnorePkg   = qtcurve-kde3
IgnorePkg   = kdebindings
IgnorePkg   = knetstats
IgnorePkg   = libkipi

What you need to ignore may very well be very different, and I think I probably don't need some of these myself (like qtcurve-kde3...).  You can do like I did, try "pacman -Syu" & hunt & peck, to find out what depends on what.  I'm not very clever with using pacman I guess but it worked for me.  /

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VincentV
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berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: pacman -Syu *without* updating KDE 3.5 to 4.1?

Normally just adding the line :
IgnoreGroup = kde
in the /etc/pacman.conf file should prevent the kde upgrade.
If there are still other packages you don't want to update, just add lines :
IgnorePkg = package
for each of them.
That can only be a temporary solution though.

Last edited by berbae (2008-08-06 20:21:35)