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Mesa 21.0.1 Released, 20.3.5 Issued To Close Out The Older Series
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Originally posted by fafreeman View Posti just went ahead and did it this way. enabled testing repo's, did -syyu, wrote down the list of mesa packages it wanted to pull, then manually upgraded only the mesa packages. ignored everything else it wanted to update from testing. then disabled testing in pacman.conf. time to see how this rolls.
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Originally posted by TemplarGR View Post
Yeah that's how it gets done. Get what you need, then disable testing. The only downside is that you need to be constantly looking at the archlinux website for updated versions in testing, since you won't upgrade to them automatically. Sometimes they make several iterations of a package in testing, before they land it in stable.
Read up on a reddit comment about FrankenDebian and the official stance on this.
From my experience realistically most of the time you won't have trouble with this but it should be a specific exception.
I have a system that started as a Netrunner installation and which is now a pure Debian/unstable, just by removing/adding/migrating installed packages. No wizardry involved and it runs perfectly. I am quite impressed by the robustness of the packaging system, despite many voices picking on apt/dpkg.Last edited by reba; 26 March 2021, 05:27 AM.
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