On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:05, Jeroen Op 't Eynde <jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is a number 3. > > 3. Add [testing] and do a pacman -Sy package-you-like. It will install the > latest package from testing and its dependencies. Remove [testing] again and > you can go on using your non-testing system. I don't know if it is > fail-proof but it worked for me with xorg-server (to 1.8). When I'm doing a > pacman -Syu it just says that the packages installed are newer and therefore > doesn't update these certain packages. > This will only work if the package uses versioned depends, which is not always the case.
