On Fri, 21 May 2010 00:21:12 +0200, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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...
Ok, that wasn't a very safe step I took. :D
As I said it worked for me and I got luck. The PKGBUILD has indeed
versioned depends (most of them).
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