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Gumper

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[Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

I'm trying to prevent "pacman -Syu" from installing the package "xf86-video-ati-6.12.192-1" onto my system and no matter what I try in "IgnorePkg" in pacman.conf it always installs this pkg. I've tried both "xf86-video-ati" and "xf86-video-ati-6.12.192-1" in the "IgnorePkg" but pacman always wants to install this package. If I delete it from /var/cache/pacman/pkg it will still download this pkg and install it.

What is it that I'm doing wrong?

Last edited by Gumper (2010-04-20 02:22:06)

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lilsirecho

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

Perhaps how you use the ignore is the reason for the failure.

I use ...pacman -Syu --ignore Vlc.... a lot and it removes vlc from the list of packages to be upgraded.

How are you using the --ignore?

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karol

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

IgnorePkg   = xorg-server xorg-server-utils xf86-video-intel-legacy xf86-video-vesa xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse intel-dri libgl libdrm

works for me. Can you paste yours? You probably used wrong delimiters or sth.

mcmillan

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

chances are there's some dependency that's pulling it in. You can check with pacman -Qi and see if anything is listed under "Required by:"

karol

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

chances are there's some dependency that's pulling it in. You can check with pacman -Qi and see if anything is listed under "Required by:"

Well, I also ignore video drivers so that's probably not the case. Ignore = don't you dare to pull 'em.

Gumper

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

Doh! I feel so stupid. I just looked at my pacman.conf file once more and noticed the "#" in front of "IgnorePkg". I uncommented it and it works now.

Thanks for the help!

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

lol 

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karol

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

@Gumper
That just made my ... night. I'm off to bed now - giggling madly :-)

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

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Re: [Solved] IgnorePkg doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

Doh! I feel so stupid. I just looked at my pacman.conf file once more and noticed the "#" in front of "IgnorePkg". I uncommented it and it works now.

Thanks for the help!

I recommend you to mark the thread as Solved, at least less people going to see how much lol you are.

Last edited by n0dix (2010-04-19 03:27:48)