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nagoola

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From: Germany / Ahrensburg

Registered: 2004-03-15

Posts: 52

How to prevent a package from being updated???

Hi
I have compiled my own package with makepkg (evolution with some compile opts) and installed it afterwards - it is an older version though than the one in the repository - so when I try

pacman -Syu

of course it wants to overwrite my package - but it shouldnt. How can I tell pacman to leave this one package like it is?
Thanks a lot!!!!

Guest

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Re: How to prevent a package from being updated???

Ignore <package>

in pacman.conf......

Dusty got there first ... ;-)

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: How to prevent a package from being updated???

IgnorePkg = <package> [package] ...
          Instructs  pacman  to  ignore any upgrades for this package when
          performing a --sysupgrade.

in pacman.conf.

Dusty

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nagoola

Member

From: Germany / Ahrensburg

Registered: 2004-03-15

Posts: 52

Re: How to prevent a package from being updated???

thanks - read that file but for some reason didnt find it
anyway thanks again!!!