Hi Amy, Dunno about Arch, but Mageia 3 ships with Gnome Shell 3.6 Mageia will skip 3.8 and will ship 3.10 with Mageia 4.
-- (o_ //\ Regards, Groeten, V_/_ Bas Burger. On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:17:35 +1000 Amy <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
