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brendan

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Registered: 2009-05-16

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stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

How can I install the kernel26 package from testing but keep the one from stable? Can I rename the package from kernel26 to kernel26-testing? This is probably explained somewhere because it seems logical to test a testing kernel with a stable one alongside it. I however with lots of googling and forum searching have found nothing - that I at least - thought was relevant.

Maybe people use kernel26-vanilla from AUR and install kernel26 from testing? How is this done? I can't use kernel26-lts because I use ext4 and xts-plain.

Thanks!

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

you should use abs to grab the testing PKGBUILD and other packages.

edit the PKGBUILD to reflect the kernel name change. and build. right now there is no kernel26 package in testing. so there is no point on doing this.

brendan

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

is it possible to use abs to grab previous kernel26 packages like 2.6.31 from stable?

Wintervenom

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

Use a repository like Schunix (sic).  They keep old versions of kernels around.

brendan

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

@wintervenom - I'd like to but can't find anything on google or forums about schunix

eldragon

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

i dont think you get what the testing repository is for.

every new package that might break people's systems is first uploaded to the testing repo. users with more experience (or time to fix regressions) enable this repository (and read the arch-dev-public mailing list) so as to 'Test' new packages. after a few days / weeks, these same packages (or improved versions) are moved to their stable repository (core or extra). im not sure if comunity packages ever make it to testing before they are released.

ngoonee

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

There's [community-testing] which you should use in tandem with [testing]. Otherwise eldragon is correct. [testing] is not for a user to 'see if this particular package works for me', its more for interested users to test out new packages to ensure its not broken before it goes to everyone.

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chpln

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Registered: 2009-09-17

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

@wintervenom - I'd like to but can't find anything on google or forums about schunix

I believe wintervenom was referring to Schlunix.  Schlunix's repos contain both current and older versions of packages.

Last edited by chpln (2010-01-14 03:41:29)

brendan

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Re: stable and testing kernels? How to keep both?

@wintervenom - I'd like to but can't find anything on google or forums about schunix

I believe wintervenom was referring to Schlunix.  Schlunix's repos contain both current and older versions of packages.

THanks that's exactly what I needed.