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kaddy

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 192

Updating with 3rd party repos

Heya Fellow Archers

Im still newish to Arch, and I was wondering.........
i've added a few 3rd party repo's in pacman So I could find some software that wasn't in AUR or the official repo's in pacman.......

And I was wondering..... If i do a Pacman -Syu, Im assuming it will also update any packages i installed from the 3rd party repo's... which I don't want.......
Is there a way to do an Update Just from the default repo's in Pacman and not the 3rd party ones? Or Do I is the only way to do this is to go into the Pacman.conf file and # the ones i don't want to update from..... resync, then upgrade..........

Probly a dumb question as Hashing out the 3rd party repo's is not much bother.... but I was still wondering what other people do in this case........

thanx

kaddy

kaddy

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 192

Re: Updating with 3rd party repos

Nobody? lol..........
I will assume hashing out unwanted 3rd party repos before updating is the way to go..........................

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Updating with 3rd party repos

pacman -Syu will update your system using the information provided in pacman.conf. As a general rule, it is recommended that you always upgrade your entire system, and this applies equally to both official and unofficial repos. If there as specific packages, or package groups, that you do not want upgraded, use pacman's ignore function i.e. --ignore/--ignoregroup on the CLI, IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup in pacman.conf.

Remember that your unofficial repo's packages may well be built against libs/apps from core or extra, so if you don't keep them in sync, they may break.