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flummoxed

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Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 21

Updating Arch but omitting packages

Hey,

I've been using Arch for a while now, and it's the only distro I've found that doesn't seem to be suffering from the terrible NVidia freeze bug. This is a bug where if you have a 7-series Geforce card and a dual core CPU, the system randomly hard-locks. It only happens some times, on some setups, but I was suffering the same bug throughout several distros. I've been running arch for a few months now without that problem.

The only thing is, I'm afraid to update the system, lest it break my driver nirvana. I'm pretty sure installing a new kernel involves re-installation of the proprietary nVidia drivers. Also I'd like to not upgrade the drivers I have right now because they are working. But am I missing out by not upgrading the rest of the system because of this? Is tehre some easy way to omit the kernel package and the nvidia driver package from Pacman -Syu?

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: Updating Arch but omitting packages

Run "man pacman.conf" and look for "IgnorePkg".  That should solve your problem.

flummoxed

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Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 21

Re: Updating Arch but omitting packages

Sweet thanks, that's just what I was looking for.

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Updating Arch but omitting packages

You can also use 'pacman --ignore <package> <the rest of pacman commands'. Sometimes useful...