On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 10:03 -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:58:36 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 10:56 +0100, Polarian wrote: > > > Secondly, you can not do partial upgrades like that > > > > Hi, > > > > that's not always correct. This month I downloaded embree from IIRC > > staging. In the past I did this with packages from testing, too. > > > > I downloaded the package and installed it with "pacman -U". The reason > > for this was, that there was a conflict by the official repositories. > > This partial upgrade fixed the conflict. > > > > Regards, > > Ralf > > > > You can do that, but you should *expect* things to break. Up to and including > making your system unbootable. If you do something like that, you're on your > own, Arch is not designed for it. But it's your system, do whatever you want. I should mention that in the case of embree this was done after #78188 was fixed and the fixed package was provided by staging. Installing this package couldn't break my system, because it was broken by a regular, supported update ;). Actually this package fixed a system that was broken by a regular, supported update. Something like this doesn't happen often, but from time to time it does happen.
