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klenamenis

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Registered: 2014-07-03

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[SOLVED] pacman disregarding pacman.conf

Hello,

I want to keep some packages from being upgraded as well as some directories from being written to, so I used IngorePkg and NoExtract in /etc/pacman.conf, but pacman totally ignores those lines. There is no error message or anything else, the directories fill and mentioned packages show up on the update's list.

Can anybody help?

[klemens@arch-pc ~]$ egrep "IgnorePkg|NoExtract" /etc/pacman.conf
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
IgnorePkg = linux,linux-headers
NoExtract   = /usr/share/{doc,gtk-doc,man}/*

Well, the problem with the directories is solved I forgot to remove the leading "root-slash", but IgnorePkg still doesn't work, though.

Last edited by klenamenis (2014-10-15 17:32:31)

Pse

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Registered: 2008-03-15

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman disregarding pacman.conf

I think packages should be space-separated, not comma-separated.

Last edited by Pse (2014-10-15 17:03:21)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman disregarding pacman.conf

I think packages should be space-separated, not comma-separated.

This. IgnorePkg is an array.

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klenamenis

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Registered: 2014-07-03

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman disregarding pacman.conf

I kinda feel dumb now ;D thanks!