On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/11/10 12:19, Jason Reardon wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Gaetan Bisson<bisson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> [2010-11-01 19:26:31 +1000] Allan McRae: >>> >>>> db-5.1.19-2 >>>> heimdal-1.3.3-2 >>>> iproute2-2.3.25-2 >>>> libsasl-2.1.23-5 >>>> pam-1.1.1-2 >>>> perl-5.12.1-3 >>>> >>> >>> signoff i686 >>> >>> -- >>> Gaetan >>> >>> >> >> I installed db from testing. Now when I run `pacman -Qu --dbpath >> /var/lib/pacman` I have one update as 'db 5.1.19-2' (which is currently >> installed from testing). However, when I run `pacman -Su`, it wants to >> install 'db 4.8.26-2'. When updating to the testing version, there's a >> message: 'Consider running db-upgrade on Berkeley DB databases.' I'm not >> at >> all familiar with the db package, so I'm not too sure what to do with >> this, >> if this is what's causing the problem. Seemed kind of strange anyway, and >> worth mentioning. >> >> > Testing is all or none. You do not just install a single package from > [testing] and then disable it unless you know what you are doing. > > Allan > > I'm somewhat of a mailing list lurker. I've read before that one thing Arch is lacking in are normal users testing packages. So, I wrote a script to install packages from testing when someone asked for a sign-off, so that I could give my input if needed. But, just for clarification, if I wish to contribute in this manner, I need to run a machine solely from the testing repos? -- Jason
