On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:16:30PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-10-23 10:35:56 +0530] gt: > > Alternatively can I rename the package directory inside > > /var/lib/pacman/local/ and %VERSION% string inside the desc file to > > achieve the same? > > Sure you can. > > But what exactly are you trying to achieve? Avoid upgrading a specific > package? The IgnorePkg option of pacman.conf can make that happen in a > much more robust way. Actually, it is related to IgnorePkg. I have a few packages locally compiled, for example mutt. I have stripped all unnecessary options from mutt, and added it to IgnorePkg. Now when an upgrade is available, i see the changes and decide whether to upgrade or not. In case of mutt, the last two upgrades had added patches which i didn't need. So i just changed the version in PKGBUILD to correspond to the arch repos. Now instead of compiling everytime due to an unnecessary version bump, i thought there must be a way to just change the version in the database, hence the question. Thanks to you and Matthew for the answers.
