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  • #11
    Originally posted by TemplarGR View Post

    That's what i did. You don't need to get all packages from testing, just update only the ones you want. Mesa doesn't have any updated dependencies so you can just get it without much fuss.
    i 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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    • #12
      Originally posted by fafreeman View Post
      i 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.
      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.

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      • #13
        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.
        I don't have experience with the package manager your distribution is using but with apt it's possible to specify which packages get pulled from which repository by giving them priorities. So when the desired package gets updated it will be pulled from where specified without manual intervention: https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration. This gives you a mixed system but that's what you have now anyways.

        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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        • #14
          After upgrade to Mesa 21 (KDE Neon, kisak ppa) i'm getting the following error message in Xorg.0.log - "(EE) AMDGPU(0): Failed to make import prime FD as pixmap: 22". I don't know what it's about.

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