[arch-general] downgrades when moving out of [testing]

Marek Otahal markotahal at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 10:03:50 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 26 March 2013 14:32:54 Florian Pritz wrote:
> On 26.03.2013 14:22, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> > I typically upgrade with -uu, 
> 
> Now why would you do that unless you explicitly want to downgrade? This
> is only useful if you disable testing and want to downgrade all
> packages. Upgrading is only one -u.
> 
That is not true, usecase is, when a package is removed from [testing] (eg. found broken), pacman will not automatically sync to newest pkg in repos(core). 
I even suggest -uu is default use for pacman. 

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Marek Otahal :o)


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