Re: [arch-general] can you only test certain packages?

Am 20.05.2010 19:29, schrieb Caleb Cushing:

I'm trying to help with the testing of perl 5.12 but I'd rather not test every package out there. Is it possible to block certain packages from being updated from testing? or only allow certain ones? maybe with a regex? obviously I don't wish to ban them globally. if they make it into a non testing repo I'm fine with it.

If you are careful, you can simply test a single package from testing. However, it might be necessary to also grab dependencies ... so you need to know what you are doing, why the package is in testing, what it depends on and what depends on it. As far as I know, perl is "alone" in testing, so you should be in the clear.