On 01/25/2011 11:14 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:

ti, 2011-01-25 kello 22:13 +0100, Grzegorz Rumiński kirjoitti:

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Hi lads,

Can I selectively install apackage from [testing] repo or do I have to uncomment it in pacman.conf, update database, install it and then comment it again? Is there a way to install it more quickly/with less messing around with conf file? I do not have access to my arch box for a few weeks now but started to wonder...

Thanks, Greg.

Enable it in pacman.conf and place it as the last repository. Then pacman -Sy testing/pkg_name

Never ever do this. testing repo is all or nothing. -- Ionuț

On 01/25/2011 11:25 PM, Grzegorz Rumiński wrote:

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Enable it in pacman.conf and place it as the last repository. Then pacman -Sy testing/pkg_name

Never ever do this. testing repo is all or nothing.

-- Ionuț

I want to upgrade to the newest pacman. I was wondering whether testing/pgk_name method would work - I am glad it would :).

there isn't any new pacman in testing. it was moved more than 24 hours ago in core -- Ionuț

On 26/01/11 07:51, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:28 +0200 Ionuț Bîru wrote:

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On 01/25/2011 11:14 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:

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ti, 2011-01-25 kello 22:13 +0100, Grzegorz Rumiński kirjoitti:

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Hi lads,

Can I selectively install apackage from [testing] repo or do I have to uncomment it in pacman.conf, update database, install it and then comment it again? Is there a way to install it more quickly/with less messing around with conf file? I do not have access to my arch box for a few weeks now but started to wonder...

Thanks, Greg.

Enable it in pacman.conf and place it as the last repository. Then pacman -Sy testing/pkg_name

Never ever do this. testing repo is all or nothing.

Boohoo. I do this for years and it works fine for me. Sue me. You just need to know that when things break because of it, how to fix it. (which is easy)

Except, given the question being asked, the knowing how to fix things when they break due to this is probably missing... Allan