making testing repository optional

eldragon · 2009-03-03 21:03:35

ive been hunting high and low for this option, but cant seem to be able to do it.

the thing is, i want to enable testing, but only allow the upgrade of packages i pick manually.. not the entire system, is this possible?

so that when i do "pacman -Syu" it will not upgrade packages in testing

Allan · 2009-03-03 21:14:22

It is possible by putting [testing] last in pacman.conf. But it is not supported and very much not recommended unless you really know what your are doing...

lucke · 2009-03-03 21:16:59

You install packages from testing using "pacman -S testing/$pkgname" in that case.

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eldragon · 2009-03-03 21:22:10

Allan wrote:

It is possible by putting [testing] last in pacman.conf. But it is not supported and very much not recommended unless you really know what your are doing...

great, thanks to both of you... thats what i was looking....i dont want to have an experimental desktop, but i needed/wanted xorg-server 1.6 and found it works like a charm. but there are loads of packages wanting their upgrade i dont want to mess with just in case

one question, unsuported how? meaning there might be inconsinstencies if i dont upgrade all the needed packages in testing?

brisbin33 · 2009-03-03 21:34:49

edit, i misread things... ignore me

Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-03-03 21:35:28)

JGC · 2009-03-03 23:13:35

It's unsupported because the packages in extra often fail with new packages in testing. These packages get fixed to work with the packages in testing, and are also placed in testing.
One example is the required rebuild of all drivers related to xorg-server 1.6. If you just pick xorg-server, you'll end up with a broken system.

eldragon · 2009-03-04 02:46:44

JGC wrote:

It's unsupported because the packages in extra often fail with new packages in testing. These packages get fixed to work with the packages in testing, and are also placed in testing.
One example is the required rebuild of all drivers related to xorg-server 1.6. If you just pick xorg-server, you'll end up with a broken system.

yes, i already had thought of that, but i thought this was easily solved with dependencies and versioning... i still dont know much about how this works in detail.
anyway, thanks for the answers... ive already commited to the testing repo entirely, and except for netcfg which breaks the net-auto daemon everything worked...

btw, now where do i talk about this issue? bug report?

Ranguvar · 2009-03-04 02:58:42

People usually post in the [testing] forum.

Not using testing completely can cause problems because sometimes packages in testing are made to work with other new packages in testing.

eldragon · 2009-03-04 03:20:22

Ranguvar wrote:

People usually post in the [testing] forum.

done, thanks

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