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Alberto-Trujillo

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From: Poole, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2017-02-21

Posts: 64

[SOLVED] About pacman.conf [IgnorePkg]

Hello,
Please can you help me with a detail about IgnorePkg=?
QUESTION: How do I know the correct name of the package I want to ignore?

I've always had this doubt and despite reading about pacman on the ArchWiki I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

AN EXAMPLE: "wpa_supplicant",
I would like to prevent from updating to version 2:2.11-2, which doesn't work on my MacBook Pro 2012 system. (Broadcom Inc.)

This is the entry I put in my pacman.conf

IgnorePkg=wpa_supplicant

I imagine you usually search for it in the package finder to see the official name.
Finally one more thing, how do I find out if the problem in a package that didn't work on my computer has been corrected in the following updates?

Kind regards,
Alberto

Last edited by Alberto-Trujillo (2024-08-05 10:34:47)

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] About pacman.conf [IgnorePkg]

That entry looks right.  I've only seen examples that include spaces around the "=", but I don't see this documented as a requirement, and in a quick test with another setting, spacing doesn't appear to matter.  But does that entry in your pacman.conf not work as expected?  What does happen?

As for knowing when a problem is fixed, you'll have to watch upstream development - or just occasionally test.  Is there an open bug report you can track about the problem?  If not ... why haven't you created one?

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Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

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Re: [SOLVED] About pacman.conf [IgnorePkg]

This is my exact config and this shows how you would do it for two or more packages:

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
IgnorePkg   = linux-zen linux-zen-headers

Following that I now I see this when I run pacman -Syu:

:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: linux-zen: ignoring package upgrade (6.9.10.zen1-1 => 6.10.2.zen1-1)
warning: linux-zen-headers: ignoring package upgrade (6.9.10.zen1-1 => 6.10.2.zen1-1)
 there is nothing to do

So you are still told that there are package upgrades for your ignored package and so if you're waiting for a specific version you'll see it there and know to undo it, and also you won't forget that you've set it because that will appear every time you update.

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Alberto-Trujillo

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From: Poole, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2017-02-21

Posts: 64

Re: [SOLVED] About pacman.conf [IgnorePkg]

Thank you both. Without going into details, you have answered my questions. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

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