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| ====== Prevent Mesa From Updating ====== | ====== Prevent Mesa From Updating ====== | ||
| - | You can temporarily hold the Mesa packages with pacman’s IgnorePkg setting, but on CachyOS this means running a partial system upgrade, which is unsupported and can cause package or dependency problems. I’d use it only as a short diagnostic workaround, not indefinitely. | + | You can temporarily hold the Mesa packages with pacman’s IgnorePkg setting, but on CachyOS this means running a partial system upgrade, which is unsupported and can cause package or dependency problems. I’d use it only as a short diagnostic workaround, not indefinitely. |
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| + | < | ||
| - | bash | + | - Edit it: |
| + | < | ||
| - | sudo cp / | + | - |
| - | + | < | |
| - | Edit it: | + | |
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| - | bash | + | |
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| - | sudo nano / | + | |
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| - | Find the IgnorePkg line and add the Mesa packages from your update log: | + | |
| - | ini | + | |
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| - | IgnorePkg = mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers lib32-vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers opencl-mesa lib32-opencl-mesa | + | |
| Save and exit. Pacman should then skip those packages during upgrades. | Save and exit. Pacman should then skip those packages during upgrades. | ||
| Important: don’t force an update if pacman reports dependency conflicts, and don’t use pacman -Sy by itself. Keep your working snapshot so you can roll back if the held packages cause trouble. To resume normal updates later, remove or comment out the IgnorePkg line and do a full system upgrade. | Important: don’t force an update if pacman reports dependency conflicts, and don’t use pacman -Sy by itself. Keep your working snapshot so you can roll back if the held packages cause trouble. To resume normal updates later, remove or comment out the IgnorePkg line and do a full system upgrade. | ||