pacman repo , testing , unstable

TomWitko · 2009-08-22 13:57:39

Thought of something interesting for pacman in that is it possible to have it so repos can be seperated by option. AUR sounds interesing and unstable and testing apps can be good to find something you are interested in but enabling the repo as a main might not be what a user wants. Thinking of mostly version breakage or rather if someone is looking for one package or version without using testing as a repo.

This sould work with a pacman extension such as pacman -Sy???? package name where pacman would look at the testing repo for the package without it being in the main repo list. In repos this can might be a bit tricky as it would require something different than enabling testing. It could have a repo extension listing in the repo list to allow it to be accessed by the pacman extention. It might also be possible to add this to Shaman under the search bar.

End result should be to allow access to testing without messing the main repos and having to have testing enabled as a main option.

Mr.Elendig · 2009-08-22 17:19:15

You can put testing at the bottom of you pacman.conf and use pacman -S testing/lolpackage to grab a single package from it. Without having pacman upgrade to everything that is in testing when you -Syu.

Using testing like this is often a bad idea tho, since packages in testing often depends on other packages in testing.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-08-22 17:20:49)

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#1 2009-08-22 13:57:39

pacman repo , testing , unstable

#2 2009-08-22 17:19:15

Re: pacman repo , testing , unstable

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