[arch-general] Modify installed package version

Giorgio Lando giorgio.lando at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 07:08:28 EDT 2012


On Tue 23/10/12, 12:14, gt wrote:
> Actually, it is related to IgnorePkg.
> 
> I have a few packages locally compiled, for example mutt. I have stripped
> all unnecessary options from mutt, and added it to IgnorePkg. Now when an
> upgrade is available, i see the changes and decide whether to upgrade or
> not. In case of mutt, the last two upgrades had added patches which i didn't
> need. So i just changed the version in PKGBUILD to correspond to the arch repos.

Perhaps you can create a local repo with repo-add and list it in pacman.conf before the
official ones.
Giorgio


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