Hello,
On 2010-10-22 01:02, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Christian<christian08@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So my question is if I get a such package, may I just extract it, unpack the
data.tar.gz and copy the libraries into /usr/lib?
For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the arch
repository.
What do you think?
You really want to avoid having random untracked files lying around in
your system; you want to create packages with them so they are tracked
by pacman.
A good solution for your problem might be the following:
Grab an older revision of the PKGBUILD, change pkgname to something
like python-pygame-1.8 and build it. To find the revision you need to
fetch, consult the svn log [1]. In this case, for example, you'd want
r43882. To checkout that revision use:
svn co -r43882 svn://archlinux.org/packages/python-pygame/trunk
python-pygame-1.8
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[1] http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/python-pygame/trunk/?op=log&isdir=1&;
OK, but let's say I need some other older library how to search the svn for that?
Since I didn't know that it was the
r4388 release.
