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I have a problem with X - I have an Intel chipset. i965 to be precise. I know coming from Gentoo that the latest drivers are broken. In Gentoo, the fix was very easy - I just "masked" the newer packages and paludis would ignore them.
I've googled a fair bit, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this with pacman. The only thing I could find is IgnorePkg which I assumed I could add package versions to like "xf86-video-intel>2.6". But I can't seem to make this work.
Is there a way to do masking in a similar way to Paludis, or am I going to have to trawl through the arm.kh.nu and do this manually?
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I'm not sure I understand your intentions.
There's a xf86-video-intel-legacy package in the official repos - that should work better than the latest drivers for you. If you use IgnorePkg, the package won't get updated, but pacman will tell you when there's a newer version available in the repos.
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yup, tried that package - it's also broken.
What I want to do is make pacman ignore xf86-video-intel versions >=2.6.0. I want pacman to then take a look at the versions avaliable and choose the latest one which is <2.6.0.
The trouble is, xf86-video-intel-legacy is too old and xf86-video-intel is too new.
I know there's other packages I will need to do this for in the future too.
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There is no such feature in pacman, the closest you will get are either your own custom repo, or using -U
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Thanks - I think you just saved me hours of googling for something which doesn't exist!
I'll see if I can find some older packages from arm.kh.nu...
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Once you've found and installed an older version, IgnorePkg will be useful.
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In this case use xf86-video-intel-legacy
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What I want to do is make pacman ignore xf86-video-intel versions >=2.6.0. I want pacman to then take a look at the versions avaliable and choose the latest one which is <2.6.0
There's no point specifying a version here -- Arch doesn't maintain old packages (ie, there'll never be a version of a package 'inserted' between 2.5.9 and 2.6.0)
Install the package version you need, then add it to IgnorePkg
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