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aglarond

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 129

Testing repository

Hey guys. I just started messing with Arch (came from Gentoo) and so far I'm impressed. I'm curious about the testing repository, though. I don't want this to be a testing system, but there are a couple of updates in testing I would like. Is it possible to selectively pull packages out of testing with pacman or is it an all or nothing? Would I just be better off building from source until it moves into one of the other repos?

Thanks
-mS

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: Testing repository

Yes, you can, but it's not recommended.  The packages in testing are built against other packages that may be in testing so installing single packages from testing has the potential to break things.  To do this, however, you can enable the testing repo at the BOTTOM of your /etc/pacman.conf, then install testing packages via pacman -S testing/packagename.

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aglarond

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 129

Re: Testing repository

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try that.

-mS