On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 18:04 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: > 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. AND its a recipe for eventual system breakage...
