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jgruber

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Registered: 2015-07-13

Posts: 3

gnome-software hold package

Hello all.

Using gnome-3 desktop. I have an unatural disklike of nautilus 3.16 because of the inability to reduce the icon size on the desktop to anything smaller then jupiter. In packman I hold back nautilus to 3.14.

How do I hold back a package in gnome-software. Currenly when gnome-software updates nautilus, I use downgrade to put it back to nautilus 3.14. I would rather just learn to tell gnome-software to hold nautilus.

Where is my /etc/gnome-software/blah for my systemwide gnome-software settings?

Thanks all!

Chazza

Wiki Maintainer

Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: gnome-software hold package

No idea whether this can be done in GNOME Software itself but this can be done in pacman.

In /etc/pacman.conf add nautilus to IgnorePkg:

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =

and then run pacman -Syy

Presumably GNOME Software will respect this setting.

Edit: Oops. Meant pacman -Syyu

Last edited by Chazza (2015-07-13 15:40:06)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: gnome-software hold package

and then run pacman -Syy

Whatever you do, do not run that.

jgruber

Member

Registered: 2015-07-13

Posts: 3

Re: gnome-software hold package

Thanks...I'm looking for the same functionality for gnome-software.

I've had this:

IgnorePkg = nautilus

in /etc/pacman.conf and it works well for pacman (and pacaur.. my client). However, gnome-software wants to update nautilus still.

Chazza

Wiki Maintainer

Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: gnome-software hold package

There's a bug report on Red Hat bugzilla for GNOME Software ignoring yum config regarding the holding back of updates so you're not the only one. At a guess, I'd say that what you're after isn't possible at the moment.

brittyazel

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From: Davis, CA

Registered: 2013-05-11

Posts: 165

Re: gnome-software hold package

Gnome-Software, or Packagekit to be more specific, doesn't parse through your pacman.conf file the same way that pacman itself does, so that is why you are getting differential results from each. For the time being, it doesn't look like that will change. As for Packagekit/Gnome-Software specific config files, I do not know of any off the top of my head, and I have not employed such options myself.

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