On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Giorgio Lando wrote: > On Tue 23/10/12, 12:14, gt wrote: > > 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. > > Perhaps you can create a local repo with repo-add and list it in pacman.conf before the > official ones. That's a nice idea, though the packages i modify are usually less than 5, so i am fine with the current methodology. I'll keep it in mind for the future. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:40:19PM +0200, Damjan wrote: > In your case, I believe it's easiest if you change the name of the > package to "mutt-custom" or some-such. Optionally you could also add > provides=(mutt) if there are some other packages that depend on > mutt. I can do that, but then i wouldn't be notified of upgrades by pacman.
