On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it possible to configure pacman to upgrade initscripts and related > packages only from testing, but no other packages? I don't think you can make pacman do that automatically (I think not). What you can do is add [testing] as your last repository in pacman.conf and install initscripts from there manually: $ pacman -S testing/initcripts You'll have to know when to do this though, as you won't get a notification when a new version hits testing. (NOTE: in general, this sort of cherry-picking from testing is discouraged as you might have out-of-date dependencies). What I do is to create an initscripts-git package and install that instead (obviously this is a lot more bleeding edge than [testing]): $ git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git $ cd initscripts $ makepkg $ pacman -U initscripts-git-20120927-c67d598-any.pkg.tar.xz Cheers, Tom
