Hello, On 2010-10-22 01:02, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Christian wrote:

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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& OK, but let's say I need some other older library how to search the svn for that? Since I didn't know that it was the

r4388 release.

Hi, On 2010-10-22 at 02:20 Evangelos Foutras wrote:

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Christian wrote:

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OK, but let's say I need some other older library how to search the svn for that?

Find the package you're interested in from http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ and click on it. At the right side of the package page, you'll see a link named "SVN Entries (trunk)"; follow it. Now that you're at the websvn interface, click the link that reads "View Log".

You are presented with a table that lists the revisions of a specific package. On the "Log message" column you'll be able to locate the package version you want, and you can then match that to the first column ("Rev") which is the revision number you'll checkout.

Many thanks, will have a look. But lets say I can't find a particular library and I only have a .deb file with it, what to do then? Christian

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:34:58 +0200 "Christian" wrote:

Hi,

On 2010-10-22 at 09:32 Allan McRae wrote:

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On 22/10/10 08:42, Christian wrote:

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For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the arch repository.

As an aside, most things that work with pygame-1.8 also work with 1.9...

Allan How is it with python2.5 then?

Unless the code is using something that has been deprecated/removed in 2.6/2.7, then it will work just fine in 2.7 too.