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wh00

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Registered: 2016-03-24

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] Upgrading to kernel in [testing] from [core]

I think I've missed something in the documentation I've found.

I want to enable the testing repo, specifically to upgrade my kernel version. Now I see version 4.8 in the testing repo: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/test … _64/linux/

So I've uncommented all the relevant [*testing] repos in my pacman.conf. I upgraded (pacman -Syu) and some new kde packages were installed, but nothing related to the kernel.

Additionally:

$ pacman -Ss linux | grep core/linux
core/linux 4.7.6-1 (base) [installed]
core/linux-api-headers 4.7-1 [installed]
core/linux-atm 2.5.2-4
core/linux-docs 4.7.6-1
core/linux-firmware 20160915.c4c07a8-1 [installed]
core/linux-headers 4.7.6-1 [installed]
core/linux-lts 4.4.23-1
core/linux-lts-docs 4.4.23-1
core/linux-lts-headers 4.4.23-1

$ pacman -Ss linux | grep testing/linux
<nothing>

I don't have linux in IgnorePkg or anything. Is there something I'm missing?

Last edited by wh00 (2016-10-05 22:17:41)

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrading to kernel in [testing] from [core]

Since the kernel package in testing just updated today your mirror might not have synced since the update.

wh00

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Registered: 2016-03-24

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrading to kernel in [testing] from [core]

Yes that was it! D'oh!