Am 03.09.21 um 12:37 schrieb Björn Fries via arch-general:
Hello,
On 9/3/21 12:33 PM, Peter Nabbefeld via arch-general wrote:
Thank You for the quick answer! Usually all I do is using pacman, I
never used the mirrorlist to get a package ...
Just search your package at https://archlinux.org/packages/
and click "Download from mirror"
Thank You, I've never noticed that link - sometimes it's worth to just
look in unexpected places :)
Kind regards,
Peter
On 9/3/21 12:33 PM, Konstantin Gizdov wrote:
> However, this and your general idea are not great advice and will put
> your system in an unsupported state. Meaning, what you want to do is
> equivalent to a partial upgrade (like pacman -Sy & pacman -S something)
> and if you have issues later, Arch Linux support options will probably
> just refuse to help you. Hence, why it's called an unsupported state.
If the package doesn't need any dependencies from -testing it should
be everything back to a supported state once the package moves out of
testing.
