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ThatOneCalculator

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Keep package from specified repository in said repository

My /etc/pacman.conf currently looks like this:

[core-x86-64-v3]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/alhp-mirrorlist

[extra-x86-64-v3]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/alhp-mirrorlist

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

The -x86-64-v3 packages come from ALHP, which has been working great for me so far. However, there's one package that their build servers have failed to upgrade: zed. While I wait for them to fix that issue, for now I have done

sudo pacman -S extra/zed

Which works fine, but when doing

sudo pacman -Syu

it tries to fall back to the extra-x86-64-v3 version, resulting in

:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: zed: downgrading from version 0.143.7-1 to version 0.137.5-2.1
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)          Old Version  New Version  Net Change  Download Size

extra-x86-64-v3/zed  0.143.7-1    0.137.5-2.1    3.43 MiB      30.32 MiB

Total Download Size:    30.32 MiB
Total Installed Size:  122.12 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        3.43 MiB

Is there anything I can do to tell pacman to check extra for zed?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

No, pacman stops searching when it has found zed in extra-x86-64-v3 and doesn't look at lower listed repos .

The best you can do is probably to add zed to your ignore list so pacman won't try to update it .

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WorMzy

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

Are you really running 'pacman -Syu'? I'd expect to see

:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: zed: local (0.143.7-1) is newer than extra-x86-64-v3 (0.137.5-2.1)
there is nothing to do

rather than a downgrade, which would require you to run 'pacman -Syuu'.

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ThatOneCalculator

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

Sorry about that – it was -Syuu. Although even with -Syu it doesn't check extra for upgrades.

Scimmia

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

So you're specifically telling it to downgrade then are surprised when it downgrades?

But, as was said, a higher priority repo shadows a package completely for updates. Nothing you can do with that.

ThatOneCalculator

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

But, as was said, a higher priority repo shadows a package completely for updates. Nothing you can do with that.

Ah, gotcha, that was my question. There's no way to override that for one package?

seth

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

The best you can do is probably to add zed to your ignore list so pacman won't try to update it .

Then follow "pacman --config /path/to/config/w/only/extra.conf -S zed"

Alternatively you could add your own custom local repo w/ repo-add that contains only the zed package and give it the highest priority, but you'll still have to "manually" (rsync-manually, that is) fetch the package into that repo. For a single package that's probably not simplifying anything.

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Trilby

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

Then follow "pacman --config /path/to/config/w/only/extra.conf -S zed"

That should not be needed, just `pacman -S extra/zed` would do which the OP already noted they are using.

Last edited by Trilby (2024-07-14 20:28:52)

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ThatOneCalculator

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

That should not be needed, just `pacman -S extra/zed` would do which the OP already noted they are using.

Yep, that's what I've been doing so far. Might put in a feature request to pacman for something like

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Prioritize = zed

Since it seems like that doesn't exist yet.

ThatOneCalculator

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues/170

Last edited by ThatOneCalculator (2024-07-14 20:42:51)

Allan

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Re: Keep package from specified repository in said repository

I'm really meh on this idea.   When the v3 repo catches up, you need to adjust your config then reinstall the package to get the v3 version.

It could be useful if you want to run [testing] but never install kernel packages from that repo  (ignoring the Arch partial update policy), so I won't close the request.  I guess it will just sit there for the next decade.

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