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levir3

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-06-25

Posts: 15

How to block Xorg upgrade?

I do a regular pacman -Syu to keep my system up to date, but I want to act careful when upgrading Xorg (to avoid nvidia-legacy driver issues).
How can I instruct pacman to grab all the new stuff but leave Xorg untouched?
Thanks for the advise.

Dogmeat

Member

From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: How to block Xorg upgrade?

In your /etc/pacman.conf you can edit some lines to ignore upgrade of groups or individual packages. Example:

IgnoreGroup = xorg xorg-video-drivers xorg-input-drivers
IgnorePkg = package1 package2 package3

quigybo

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Registered: 2009-01-15

Posts: 223

Re: How to block Xorg upgrade?

Both pacman and pacman.conf have man pages. Just saying...

edit: There is also the fine wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … g_upgraded
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … acman.conf
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta

Last edited by quigybo (2010-11-09 06:48:01)

levir3

Member

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-06-25

Posts: 15

Re: How to block Xorg upgrade?

Thanks to you both.
I'm learning and will seek more info from the wiki.