On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:01:29 +0100, David Runge wrote: >On 2018-01-27 18:39:16 (+0100), Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:32:56 +0100, David Runge wrote: >> >Please note: If you now do a `pacman -Syu` (with the >> >[community-testing] repo still enabled in /etc/pacman.conf), you'll >> >update your system with everything that's newer in >> >[community-testing] in comparison to [community] (the first has >> >precedence)! >> >> Better do not enable testing, buts simply install the package you >> wish to test by >> >> pacman -S URL_of_the_package_location >> >Ralf, that's not really a helpful suggestion. > >However, if you activate the [community-testing] repository, pacman >will properly install all dependencies of a package and be able to >keep track of it in a reasonable way. >Some of the new additions have dependencies (also in >[community-testing]). > >So please, refrain from doing it the way Ralf described. My apologoes for the typo "S" should read "U", "S" doesn't work at all, but "U" would install all dependencies, too. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Q yoshimi yoshimi 1.5.6-1 [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -U https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64 6.2 MiB 686K/s 00:09 [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.sig 566.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% loading packages... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) yoshimi-1.5.6-2 Total Installed Size: 10.95 MiB Net Upgrade Size: -1.78 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (1/1) checking keys in keyring [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) checking package integrity [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) loading package files [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) checking available disk space [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% :: Processing package changes... (1/1) upgrading yoshimi [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% :: Running post-transaction hooks... (1/3) Updating icon theme caches... (2/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... (3/3) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Q yoshimi yoshimi 1.5.6-2 [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls -hl /var/cache/pacman/pkg/yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.3M Jan 25 15:01 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 566 Jan 25 15:01 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.sig The only drawaback still is the sig file. Once you install the next upgrade and run "pacman -Sc" the *sig file will not be removed, you need to remove it using rm -i /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*sig [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# rm -i /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*sig rm: remove regular file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.sig'? y [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls -hl /var/cache/pacman/pkg/yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.3M Jan 25 15:01 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/yoshimi-1.5.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# That's it. Yes, all dependncies already were installed on my system, if not pacman would have installed them.
