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Blake Gideon

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

Xorg is pre-release

In solving my various xfce4 issues, I have discovered I have a pre-release version of the X server. How can I use pacman to change my packages, so that I am only using non pre-release packages? If I do a sync in pacman after this, it would change all of my packages, right?

/etc/pacman.conf:

[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
Server = File:///home/custompkgs

My pacman.d/mirrorlist contains only official repositories. Do I need to comment out that last server line? I dont know what File:///home/custompkgs goes to? I guess as of right now it does nothing because I havent added any files to /home/custompkgs, right?

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Xorg is pre-release

xorg-server 1.6.3.901-1 is the only version available in any of the official Arch repos. If you want an earlier version, read the Downgrade Packages page in the wiki. If you want to know why the devs have chosen to package this version, read the arch-dev-public mailing list.

As clearly stated, /home/custompkgs is an example of a custom repo. It does nothing, unless you make it do something.

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Xorg is pre-release

Also, you have to uncomment the [stuff] line, else it won't work as expected at all.

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