[arch-general] Which version gets installed by pacman?

[Timm Preetz]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:54 +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> tisdagen den 6 maj 2008 skrev Jan de Groot:
> 
> > Simple: it installs the first entry it finds in the repositories that
> > are in pacman.conf. There's no such thing as installing the latest
> > available version.
> 
> Ok, that explains a lot of things. I reorder my pacman.conf entries, and then 
> it does it right. But I have to keep track on updates myself, I guess.
> 

In standard pacman.conf this behaviour is necessary, because otherwise
pacman would install testing-packages (for example) just because they
have higher version.

And that wouldn't be too good in some cases.