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rwd

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[solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

I wanted to postpone the recent kernel upgrade for a little while so I put  in /etc/pacman.conf
'IgnorePkg =  kernel26 kernel26-firmware '. Yet a 'pacman -Syu' happily tries to install the new kernel.  Any idea why this is?

update:
My bash alias didn't call pacman, but 'clyde', and clyde has it's own 'ignorePkg' in /etc/clyde.conf .

Last edited by rwd (2010-11-28 23:10:21)

jasonwryan

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Whitespace? The wiki example uses:

IgnorePkg=kernel26

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rwd

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

I downgraded the kernel and changing the line to

IgnorePkg=kernel26 kernel26-firmware kernel26-headers

But pacman still tries to upgrade kernel26. Also the default pacman.conf in the pacman package uses the 'x = y' format for all settings, so it would seem odd that one specific setting shouldn't be used with whitespace.

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dyscoria

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Thats strange. Whitespace works fine for me.

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Did you remember to remove the # from the line?

rwd

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Did you remember to remove the # from the line?

I had indeed removed it already.

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rwd

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Ah found it. I my bash alias didn't call pacman, but 'clyde', and clyde has it's own 'ignorePkg' in /etc/clyde.conf . It would seem better design to me  if clyde used   pacman.conf as defaults  since it is a front-end for pacman, but alas.

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Ah found it. I my bash alias didn't call pacman, but 'clyde', and clyde has it's own 'ignorePkg' in /etc/clyde.conf . It would seem better design to me  if clyde used   pacman.conf as defaults  since it is a front-end for pacman, but alas.

The dev made that decision, you'll find it in the clyde thread along with reasonings for it. FWIW I agree with you, but I'm not the dev

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Ah found it. I my bash alias didn't call pacman, but 'clyde', and clyde has it's own 'ignorePkg' in /etc/clyde.conf . It would seem better design to me  if clyde used   pacman.conf as defaults  since it is a front-end for pacman, but alas.

Clyde is not a frontend for pacman, it's a frontend for libalpm. Do you consider it better design if one program needs to be configured from another program's .conf file?

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rwd

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Ah found it. I my bash alias didn't call pacman, but 'clyde', and clyde has it's own 'ignorePkg' in /etc/clyde.conf . It would seem better design to me  if clyde used   pacman.conf as defaults  since it is a front-end for pacman, but alas.

Clyde is not a frontend for pacman, it's a frontend for libalpm. Do you consider it better design if one program needs to be configured from another program's .conf file?

Well from the user's point of view  it is a front-end for pacman. So most sensible thing to me would be for clyde to use pacman.conf as default, with the ability to override them in clyde,conf, similar to Bauerbill,  and also like the way mplayer front-ends deal with  mplayer's settings. But let's not get into that. It's the dev's choice, and fortunately we have a lot of other apps to choose from.

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Re: [solved] package gets upgraded despite ignorePkg in pacman.conf

Well from the user's point of view  it is a front-end for pacman. So most sensible thing to me would be for clyde to use pacman.conf as default, with the ability to override them in clyde,conf, similar to Bauerbill,

Why,  The user is wrong.  It is a libalpm frontend jsut like it says in its pkgdesc... "Next-generation libalpm/makepkg wrapper."

Bauerbill on the other hand states it is an extension of powerbill which states it is a wrapper for pacman...

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