Thanks everyone for the illuminating responses. IgnorePackage and IgnoreGroup seem to be what I need, after all. Cheers, Manolo On 09/26/12 at 09:10am, gt wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote:
Hello,
I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way.
Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was wondering: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is going to substitute a package that has been ABS'd?
I put my local packages under a group "custom_packages" and add IgnoreGroup = custom_packages in pacman.conf
Whenever there's an update available, pacman notifies me as others have mentioned.
Then I go to the arch git repo for the package, see the changes and decide if i need to add those changes to my package.
For example yesterday mutt was updated due to a bug, but since that bug doesn't affect me, i didn't upgrade my custom mutt package.
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