On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 10:03 -0500, Doug Newgard wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:58:36 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 10:56 +0100, Polarian wrote:
Secondly, you can not do partial upgrades like that
Hi,
that's not always correct. This month I downloaded embree from IIRC staging. In the past I did this with packages from testing, too.
I downloaded the package and installed it with "pacman -U". The reason for this was, that there was a conflict by the official repositories. This partial upgrade fixed the conflict.
Regards, Ralf
You can do that, but you should *expect* things to break. Up to and including making your system unbootable. If you do something like that, you're on your own, Arch is not designed for it. But it's your system, do whatever you want.
I should mention that in the case of embree this was done after #78188 was fixed and the fixed package was provided by staging. Installing this package couldn't break my system, because it was broken by a regular, supported update ;). Actually this package fixed a system that was broken by a regular, supported update. Something like this doesn't happen often, but from time to time it does happen.