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Mmactyre

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[Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

I recently installed the Liquix kernel from the AUR, and I would like for the AUR helper clients that I use, yaourt and packer, to ignore upgrading that kernel. Do these programs use the ignorepkg option in pacman.conf to ignore upgrading named packages from the AUR? Or is there anyway to force the AUR helper programs to ignore certain packages?

Thanks

Last edited by Mmactyre (2011-04-09 04:21:52)

Awebb

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

See man yaourt and have a look at the /etc/yaourtrc. Is there any trace of an ignoring capability? If not, it's handled by pacman.

karol

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

Have you tried

[karol@black ~]$ grep -i ignore /etc/pacman.conf
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
IgnorePkg    = kernel26
#IgnoreGroup =

Mmactyre

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

See man yaourt and have a look at the /etc/yaourtrc. Is there any trace of an ignoring capability? If not, it's handled by pacman.

Yes, I went through the yaourt man pages and yaourtrc. No mention of skipping packages for updates.

Thanks for the help,

Mmactyre

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

Have you tried

[karol@black ~]$ grep -i ignore /etc/pacman.conf
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
IgnorePkg    = kernel26
#IgnoreGroup =

In pacman.conf, I have set the option to ignore the kernel26-lqx package when updating from pacman. I was concerned that yaourt would not ignore the named package until it called pacman at the end of the install.

In the face of any other evidence, I will rely on Awebb's advice that these AUR helpers will use the pacman.conf to entirely ignore upgrading those named packages.

ngoonee

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

Have you tried

[karol@black ~]$ grep -i ignore /etc/pacman.conf
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
IgnorePkg    = kernel26
#IgnoreGroup =

In pacman.conf, I have set the option to ignore the kernel26-lqx package when updating from pacman. I was concerned that yaourt would not ignore the named package until it called pacman at the end of the install.

In the face of any other evidence, I will rely on Awebb's advice that these AUR helpers will use the pacman.conf to entirely ignore upgrading those named packages.

That is specific to a particular AUR helper, they do not all operate the same way. bauerbill (used to) supports pacman.conf, not sure about the rest.

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SanskritFritz

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

Clyde does honor that setting, but it has to be defined in /etc/clyde.conf. Including pacman.conf works also.

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Mmactyre

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

Clyde does honor that setting, but it has to be defined in /etc/clyde.conf. Including pacman.conf works also.

Thanks SanskirtFritz. Clyde is the right solution for my question.

Awebb

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Re: [Solved] Ignoring AUR Files?

You can also have a different set of ignored packages in clyde than in pacman. Im sure there somebody out there using this feature :-D