On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Christian <christian08@runbox.com> wrote:
So my question is if I get a such package, may I just extract it, unpack the data.tar.gz and copy the libraries into /usr/lib? For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the arch repository. What do you think?
You really want to avoid having random untracked files lying around in your system; you want to create packages with them so they are tracked by pacman. A good solution for your problem might be the following: Grab an older revision of the PKGBUILD, change pkgname to something like python-pygame-1.8 and build it. To find the revision you need to fetch, consult the svn log [1]. In this case, for example, you'd want r43882. To checkout that revision use: svn co -r43882 svn://archlinux.org/packages/python-pygame/trunk python-pygame-1.8 ---- [1] http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/python-pygame/trunk/?op=log&isdir=1&