FS#42165 : [Pacman] Ban a specific package version.

FS#42165 - [Pacman] Ban a specific package version.

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Alexandre Dufournet (alexduf) - Monday, 29 September 2014, 01:39 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 12 February 2016, 14:10 GMT

Task Type	Feature Request
Category	General
Status	Closed
Assigned To	No-one
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	4.1.2
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	10 Mateusz Gozdek (invidian) (2022-04-12) Nikita Bobko (bobko) (2019-05-07) Olaf the Lost Viking (OlafLostViking) (2015-11-01) Radek Podgorny (rpodgorny) (2015-07-01) McLenin (McLenin) (2014-09-30) Eivind Fonn (TheBB) (2014-09-30) zless (roentgen) (2014-09-29) Oliver Lantwin (olantwin) (2014-09-29) Marcos (Feirlane) (2014-09-29) Valdemar E. Winther (harrim4n) (2014-09-29)
Private	No

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Summary and Info:
It is possible to block a package to be updated, but it would be great to block only a specific version of the package.
That would allow to downgrade a package and ban that version, so next update pacman would jump the banned version to directly go to the next one.

This is following a reddit thread here : https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/2hqkf1/ban_a_package_version/

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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 12 February 2016, 14:10 GMT
Reason for closing: Duplicate
Additional comments about closing: FS#17127

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FS#42165 - [Pacman] Ban a specific package version.

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