Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
Thanks everyone for the illuminating responses. IgnorePackage and IgnoreGroup seem to be what I need, after all. Cheers, Manolo On 09/26/12 at 09:10am, gt wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-26 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Zeke Sulastin zekesulas...@gmail.com wrote: Many times these tweaks are temporary and, indeed, newer versions make them unnecessary. It can definitely be done as you suggest, but I think it'd be in the spirit of the help provided by, e.g., .pacsave and .pacnew

[arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way. Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was wondering: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way. Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 09/25/12 at 08:16pm, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is going to substitute a package that has been ABS'd? Why not put your tweaked packages

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Zeke Sulastin
Many times these tweaks are temporary and, indeed, newer versions make them unnecessary. It can definitely be done as you suggest, but I think it'd be in the spirit of the help provided by, e.g., .pacsave and .pacnew files, to have pacman issue a warning. -- Pacman doesn't really have a way

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: On 09/25/12 at 08:16pm, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is going to

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:34:37PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: On 09/25/12 at 08:16pm, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is going to

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread gt
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way. Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was