Welcome to the [testing] subforum!

Misfit138 · 2008-12-29 00:35:00

This new subforum is dedicated to users of the [testing] repo exclusively.
Note that all bugs must still be directed to the respective bugtracker, but please feel free to discuss any observations, issues and solutions thereof, unique to use of the [testing] repo, here.

fwojciec · 2008-12-29 00:41:29

Good idea -- hopefully this will encourage more users to use [testing].

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xaiviax · 2008-12-29 00:52:57

Sweet, it does encourage me...

dhave · 2008-12-29 01:26:51

I like.

wonder · 2008-12-29 10:07:49

this is a nice approce for making people to test packages more. it made me update to testing and i found several bugs.

jelly · 2008-12-29 22:00:16

Maybe i will use virtualbox to the [testing] , would be ideal for testing kde4

Shaika-Dzari · 2008-12-30 15:28:24

Cool idea!

jealma · 2008-12-30 23:19:04

I would like a solution to view important messages and announcements concerning [testing], besides the mailinglist. All stuff in the mailinglists about repository maintainance are not really necessary for me and it is very hard to filter out important information if you use [testing]. A dedicated archlinux.org/testing page with news items, important information, warnings and the like would be very much appreciated. These news items could, for example, announce that kernel26-2.6.28 has hit [testing], that xorg-server-1.6 was added, which problems there still are, common errors that occur (including workarounds, if exist), maybe with rss feed.

shining · 2009-01-03 14:56:21

jealma wrote:

I would like a solution to view important messages and announcements concerning [testing], besides the mailinglist. All stuff in the mailinglists about repository maintainance are not really necessary for me and it is very hard to filter out important information if you use [testing]. A dedicated archlinux.org/testing page with news items, important information, warnings and the like would be very much appreciated. These news items could, for example, announce that kernel26-2.6.28 has hit [testing], that xorg-server-1.6 was added, which problems there still are, common errors that occur (including workarounds, if exist), maybe with rss feed.

The goal of testing is actually to help the developers for preparing the move to core/extra by :
* finding bugs and helping to fix them
* finding out if there is any important information users should be aware about

So the important messages and announcements are already provided for users of core/extra, and the testing repo actually helps a lot to prepare them...

toofishes · 2009-01-03 15:06:02

jealma wrote:

I would like a solution to view important messages and announcements concerning [testing], besides the mailinglist. All stuff in the mailinglists about repository maintainance are not really necessary for me and it is very hard to filter out important information if you use [testing]. A dedicated archlinux.org/testing page with news items, important information, warnings and the like would be very much appreciated. These news items could, for example, announce that kernel26-2.6.28 has hit [testing], that xorg-server-1.6 was added, which problems there still are, common errors that occur (including workarounds, if exist), maybe with rss feed.

shining covered the latter half of your questions, but I thought I would address it a bit as well. We no longer send repository maintenance messages to the arch-dev-public mailing list, so that is one less bit of stuff to read though. (If you want to be overwhelmed, signup for arch-commits.)

As shining said, developers can't form all these pretty news items and everything else until a package has gone through testing. Use of this repository is not for everyone, but if you are willing to follow along on the ML a bit you will rarely be surprised. I am comfortable for the most part running testing on two of my machines, and I haven't had a serious issue in almost a year.

Paul-S · 2009-02-06 08:31:31

I'd like to give testing a try, is it just a matter of enabling the testing repo? Or do I have to disable the other repos and use the testing one exclusively?

Cheers

schuay · 2009-02-06 09:10:22

Paul-S wrote:

I'd like to give testing a try, is it just a matter of enabling the testing repo? Or do I have to disable the other repos and use the testing one exclusively?
Cheers

You only need to enable Testing, but make sure it comes before the other repos in pacman.conf.

MetalheadGautham · 2009-02-06 09:12:29

Paul-S wrote:

I'd like to give testing a try, is it just a matter of enabling the testing repo? Or do I have to disable the other repos and use the testing one exclusively?
Cheers

Place testing at top of other repos.
And be prepared for a lot more updates than normal.

boogachamp · 2009-03-31 02:17:59

I would like to help out and run using the testing repo, however I get the following error when I do an update:

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in filesystem
xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Any ideas?

Allan · 2009-03-31 02:29:56

http://www.archlinux.org/news/436/

boogachamp · 2009-03-31 11:43:53

wow, and I even subscribe to that RSS feed
Thanks though!

I resolved it by just re-naming those files and then doing the update...probably not the best approach but it worked for me.

SiD · 2010-12-18 18:35:50

MetalheadGautham wrote:

Paul-S wrote:
I'd like to give testing a try, is it just a matter of enabling the testing repo? Or do I have to disable the other repos and use the testing one exclusively?
Cheers
Place testing at top of other repos.
And be prepared for a lot more updates than normal.

If I do so and want to switch back to normal repos, is it enough to disable [testing] in pacman.conf and run "pacman -Syu" ?

Last edited by SiD (2010-12-18 18:36:22)

SS4 · 2010-12-18 18:46:47

I believe

pacman -Syyuu

is better, iirc two u flags upgrade from current repos and yy will manually refresh the mirror to remove testing

davidm · 2011-03-01 00:13:38

xaiviax wrote:

Sweet, it does encourage me...

Same here. I decided to give it a go on a desktop and a laptop (both i686). Just finished grabbing testing/libjpeg-turbo and it seems to be working well thus far without any issues.

.:B:. · 2011-03-01 15:23:20

That sounds like the road to breakage to me. You do realise you need to use *all* of testing, not cherrypick?

ANOKNUSA · 2011-03-01 17:28:32

Been using [testing] for about three months now, without any serious issues to speak of. After looking the first dozen posts here, though, this seems as good a place as any to stick this.

Mr Green · 2012-02-18 15:59:18

What is the deal with changes to udev and hooks? been reading about problems of users being dropped to reduced shell after updating.

Anything I should watch for when I update?

ngoonee · 2012-02-19 14:54:17

Mr Green wrote:

What is the deal with changes to udev and hooks? been reading about problems of users being dropped to reduced shell after updating.
Anything I should watch for when I update?

This is NOT a general-purpose 'ask any question about [testing]' thread.

Mr Green · 2012-02-19 15:01:18

It will not happen again

SealsRock12 · 2018-04-14 03:50:24

I like how there are testing repos as you can get even more bleeding-edge.

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