Am 11.02.2010 16:35, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
I've seen that advise come up sometimes from a package maintainer. Can this be assumed to mean (as I'm sure some will assume it to mean) that its safe to cherry-pick just mkinitcpio from testing? Or does the tester need to 'know' to -Syu from testing totally?
Nothing specifically at you, Thomas, more a general question (hence I'm changing the title, its a different thread).
In this case, it is safe (you will probably have to upgrade device-mapper,lvm2,mdadm,cryptsetup,dmraid as well if they are installed because pacman will otherwise abort due to conflicts). In general, it is not always safe to do so, I guess the package maintainer who suggests cherry-picking probably knows best. However, testing is virtually empty now: there's 16 packages in there, so the harm should be minimal in any case.