Hi all, Some notes:
* I would rather take my GNOME 3.4 snapshot and upgrade it to 3.6, rather than taking my 3.8 snapshot and downgrading to 3.6 (since the [Downgrading Packages][0] page on the Arch wiki says not to downgrade packages if possible). * I will certainly add gnome and gnome-extra to IgnoreGroup on all my VMs to freeze the versions as they are -- thanks! However I can't do this until I have a 3.6 VM. I guess it doesn't matter if I mess around with the downgrading though, because I can just take lots of snapshots to restore to :) I will play with a few methods (I think I need to keep searching the Arch wiki for ways to upgrade to a specific version rather than downgrade to a specific version, but failing that I'll downgrade from 3.8) and report back. cheers Amy [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages On 25 October 2013 17:00, Joni Kurunsaari <joni.kurunsa...@kapsi.fi> wrote: > Hi Amy, > > I would try add package groups gnome and gnome-extra to IgnoreGroup line > which can be found from pacman config file /etc/pacman.conf. Also you > should add other gnome version dependent packages to IgnorePkg line. > I have not tried this by myself, so please take snapshot or backup before > trying upgrade with ignore options. > > More info on Arch Linux wiki: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Skip_package_group_from_being_upgraded > > Maybe someone else can confirm that this is right way to do this? > > -Joni > > 10/25/13 08:16:54, Amy <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com>: > > Hi all, > > I've just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu 13.10 and I now realise that I > have no machine with GNOME 3.6 on it for playing around with stuff. > > I have a VM each with ArchLinux: GNOME 3.2, 3.4 and 3.8, but none with 3.6 > (was using my main laptop for it). > > Perhaps this is more of an Arch question, but is there any way I can grab > (say) the 3.4 VM and 'pacman -Syu' to upgrade it, *but* get it to stop at > GNOME 3.6 instead of overshooting to 3.10 (or 3.8, whatever is the latest > version in the repos)? (Previously whenever a new GNOME version is > released, I grab my latest VM, clone it, and 'pacman -Syu' it to get it to > the new version, giving me a VM with that version). > > cheers, > Amy > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > >
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