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IMCHillen

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Registered: 2010-01-08

Posts: 10

Pacman repositories and upgrading

Ok, here's the story. I have the normal repos open, and a whole bunch of user repositories added in. A few select packages have newer versions in the user repositories, but because they come later in pacman.conf, they don't get updated. Shaman recognizes this and upgrades them, but I hate shaman. Is there any way to make pacman check ALL the repos rather than just downloading packages from the first one it finds it in?

chpln

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-09-17

Posts: 361

Re: Pacman repositories and upgrading

This is not supported in pacman as far as I know.

It might be worth submitting a feature request for it.  However, having pacman grab the newest package is a sure source of problems (even with more advanced dependency resolution), and the use-case is somewhat limited.

My feeling is that this case should be handled by those providing the unofficial repositories; not by pacman.

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: Pacman repositories and upgrading

You can specify packages with "$repo/$pkgname", e.g. if you want to update "bar" from the "foo" repo instead of e.g. core, run "pacman -S foo/bar".

I suspect that pacman respects the repo order partly for security reasons.

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ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Pacman repositories and upgrading

If you put your user repositories above the normal repositories they get used instead...

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Dead Code

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Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 227

Re: Pacman repositories and upgrading

I suppose what Xyne said is a proper way to upgrade but its a bit tedious. If you have lot of packages place it above the normal repos in pacman.conf