[arch-general] When asked to test from [testing]...

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 11.02.2010 16:35, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
> I've seen that advise come up sometimes from a package maintainer. Can
> this be assumed to mean (as I'm sure some will assume it to mean) that
> its safe to cherry-pick just mkinitcpio from testing? Or does the tester
> need to 'know' to -Syu from testing totally?
> 
> Nothing specifically at you, Thomas, more a general question (hence I'm
> changing the title, its a different thread).

In this case, it is safe (you will probably have to upgrade
device-mapper,lvm2,mdadm,cryptsetup,dmraid as well if they are installed
because pacman will otherwise abort due to conflicts).

In general, it is not always safe to do so, I guess the package
maintainer who suggests cherry-picking probably knows best. However,
testing is virtually empty now: there's 16 packages in there, so the
harm should be minimal in any case.

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