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cbowman57

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Registered: 2011-08-21

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Make Pacman default y/N after update

This is probably a newbie question but this looks like the place to ask it.  I couldn't find an answer in the manual or a wiki.

Is it possible to make pacman default to No?

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serh

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

Why would you want to do that? If you want to stop certain packages from upgrading, you can ignore them in pacman.conf.

cbowman57

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Registered: 2011-08-21

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

I want to be able to do it selectively without having to edit pacman.conf, sometimes I hit the keys before I think about it.

I'm hoping that there might be an undocumented entry for pacman.conf.

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

I want to be able to do it selectively without having to edit pacman.conf, sometimes I hit the keys before I think about it.

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cbowman57

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Registered: 2011-08-21

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

It's not like I can't find a myriad of other ways to break it.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

You can run

echo n | sudo pacman -Syu

which will "respond" 'No' to

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and return to the prompt, so you can have a good look at what you're about to do. If you're sure about it, run 'pacman -Su'.

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

You can run

echo n | sudo pacman -Syu

isnt that giving the n char to sudo instead of pacman?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

You can run

echo n | sudo pacman -Syu

isnt that giving the n char to sudo instead of pacman?

It seems to work here, are you saying it doesn't work for you?

cbowman57

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Registered: 2011-08-21

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

It seems to work here from the comamnd line.  Now I'm just trying to figure out how to incorporate it into a bash alias.

Thanks karol, that's pretty close to how I hoped it could be made to work.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

alias foo="echo n | sudo pacman -Syu"

works here.

cbowman57

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Registered: 2011-08-21

Posts: 77

Re: Make Pacman default y/N after update

Nice.

Thanks.