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dogberry

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Registered: 2007-02-07

Posts: 8

Newbie question about pacman

Hi,
I am a newcomer to Arch. I am reasonably experienced with several other distros of the point and click variety but am looking forward to learning how Linux really works with Arch. I am currently running a new install of 0.7.2 and would like to update the system without updating the kernel or any of its related packages. In other words, I would like to be able to run "pacman -Su" and leave the kernel alone. If someone can tell me how to do that in pacman.conf or elsewhere, I would much appreciate it. Thanks

espo

Member

From: Stuttgart - Germany

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 74

Re: Newbie question about pacman

Hi,
maybe a look in the pacman manpage helps . There this is wrote down

IgnorePkg = <package> [package] ...
    Instructs pacman to ignore any upgrades for this package when performing a --sysupgrade.

Greetings espo

mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 684

Re: Newbie question about pacman

This also works:

sudo pacman -Syu --ignore kernel26

dogberry

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Registered: 2007-02-07

Posts: 8

Re: Newbie question about pacman

Thanks for the help.

chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Newbie question about pacman

Just curious: Why avoiding the kernel update?

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celestary
Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
kernel26
KDEmod current repository

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Newbie question about pacman

Also curious - and I'll add this for your consideration:

Arch works best when it's kept up to date.

Grimn

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Registered: 2006-12-23

Posts: 136

Re: Newbie question about pacman

Also there might be some packages that were built for the new kernel and don't work with older kernels

dogberry

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Registered: 2007-02-07

Posts: 8

Re: Newbie question about pacman

I was thinking of keeping things as simple as possible until I learn my way around. Maybe I will just take the plunge as you suggest and then sort it out as I go. Thanks again