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tolano

Member

Registered: 2007-09-20

Posts: 9

Time to move from testing to current

Hello, I'd like to know how long it takes in average moving a package from testing to current.
I really want to use xorg 7.3 but not using the testing repository. It solves some issues with my card and screen. (Ckecked it under Debian SID)

Thank you.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Time to move from testing to current

Seeing that many ppl apparently have problems with X in testing, hopefully not too fast..
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 15671.html

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Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: Time to move from testing to current

Hello, I'd like to know how long it takes in average moving a package from testing to current.
I really want to use xorg 7.3 but not using the testing repository. It solves some issues with my card and screen. (Ckecked it under Debian SID)

Thank you.

You can install packages out of testing without using the other testing packages!
Just run

pacman -S testing/package

Hope it helps...

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kensai

Member

From: Puerto Rico

Registered: 2005-06-03

Posts: 2,484

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Re: Time to move from testing to current

Xorg 7.3 needs some more work to get stabilized on my system it is working perfectly, but as the person above said many people are having problems. Well, what I can recommend is using testing, it is pretty stable right now and when Xorg 7.3 moves to stable then swith repositories again. Thats the way I do it, and pacman is so great it allows for this almost painlessly.

EDIT: The above suggestion is great btw, only that sometimes there is another package update in testing that contributes to the stabilization or fixes a problem that the update of the package you want may cause.

Last edited by kensai (2007-10-02 23:40:33)

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dolby

Member

From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Time to move from testing to current

its gonna take a while. previous version was in testing for 2 months and afaik there werent even that many issues with it

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