Using Testing and Downgrading later?

hoschi · 2009-03-05 11:40:04

Hello,
is it possible to use Testing (i need Xorg-Server 1.6) and later downgrade to stable again?
Can I simply add and remove the Testing-Branch in pacman.conf?

Thanks for your help.

lucke · 2009-03-05 11:59:15

Yeah, but you'd have to specify which packages to downgrade (it won't downgrade automatically after hashing out testing and running pacman -Syu).

Last edited by lucke (2009-03-05 12:00:33)

agapito · 2009-03-05 12:14:08

I did it.

bangkok_manouel · 2009-03-05 12:23:24

hoschi wrote:

Can I simply add and remove the Testing-Branch in pacman.conf?

pacman can manage this as well.

man pacman.conf wrote:

The order of repositories in the configuration files matters; repositories listed first will take precedence over those listed later in the file when packages in two repositories have identical names, regardless of version number.

enable [testing] and put it as your last repo in pacman.conf
pacman -Sy testing/xorg

hoschi · 2009-03-05 12:23:56

agapito wrote:

I did it.

Should I note the packages?

bangkok_manouel · 2009-03-05 12:27:12

hoschi wrote:

agapito wrote:
I did it.
Should I note the packages?

if you enable/disable [testing], pacman will tell you that the local package is newer than the one in the repo so you don't have to note anything.

dw · 2009-03-05 14:08:48

i always use yaourt with the --downgrade option after disabling testing.

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