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ioky

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Registered: 2008-06-19

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Would pm-utils 1.2 work better with the Arch Linux?

pm-utils 1.2 come out for a while, but Arch still seem not yet putting it into the repo. Like many Laptop user, suspend can be plain to work under pm-utils 1.1.2. I just wondering would the new version work better or still about the same.

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: Would pm-utils 1.2 work better with the Arch Linux?

uhm, what are you trying to say here? "pm-utils is outdated, please update it"?
just get the PKGBUILD for pm-utils from abs, change the pkgver and rebuild it yourself. easy as that. (and faster than waiting for someone else to do that )

kamituel

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-09-14

Posts: 47

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Re: Would pm-utils 1.2 work better with the Arch Linux?

uhm, what are you trying to say here? "pm-utils is outdated, please update it"?
just get the PKGBUILD for pm-utils from abs, change the pkgver and rebuild it yourself. easy as that. (and faster than waiting for someone else to do that )

That's not really the answer. Pacman's main purpose is to provide us recent packages, and if some package is outdated, that's normal that somebody is curious why.
And yes, of course, one could build this package from ABS, of even from plain source tarball, but that's only temporary solution. Packages should be always updated as soon as they are stable and bugfree.

That's not good situation when it happens differently - like with boost package. It is few months now from the time version 1.35 was officialy released, but it didn't make it to the core/extra repository yet. I needed it - I built it, but that was not so convienient.

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z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 276

Re: Would pm-utils 1.2 work better with the Arch Linux?

uhm, what are you trying to say here? "pm-utils is outdated, please update it"?
just get the PKGBUILD for pm-utils from abs, change the pkgver and rebuild it yourself. easy as that. (and faster than waiting for someone else to do that )

That's not really the answer. Pacman's main purpose is to provide us recent packages, and if some package is outdated, that's normal that somebody is curious why.
And yes, of course, one could build this package from ABS, of even from plain source tarball, but that's only temporary solution. Packages should be always updated as soon as they are stable and bugfree.

That's not good situation when it happens differently - like with boost package. It is few months now from the time version 1.35 was officialy released, but it didn't make it to the core/extra repository yet. I needed it - I built it, but that was not so convienient.

best regards

Actually that IS the answer, if something you need isn't updated at a pace you are happy with, you can always use AUR to get the updated package till it's updated in the Repos, that's the whole point of AUR, to get packages that aren't in the Repos yet, it might be "inconvenient" for you, but it's what's available to use

Dusty

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Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Would pm-utils 1.2 work better with the Arch Linux?

There are far too many threads about how often Arch packages are updated, locking. The provided answer is, indeed, correct: compile the new version yourself, its not that hard. For countless bikeshed discussions on the topic, please search the forum.

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Dusty

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