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Do not update single packages on Archlinux, but
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We can install a new package if it wasn't installed with
pacman -S firefox. That is not a partial upgrade of the system. Right? What i don't understand is, when I uninstall withpacman -Rs firefox, delete the cached firefox package (only that file), then the system is in the same state as before I installed it. Then-S firefoxshould be okay, right? And it even looks up the new version. This is my question, if that would work correctly.IF no dependency tries to update too. Off course in that case I would stop. Without
pacman -Sy, I never do that anyway, only-Syu.That's all you need to know. As long as you always use
pacman -Syuyou will be fine.pacman -Syis the real problem. The wiki page is pretty clear about the sequences of commands that are problematic https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported.This isn't correct. It won't look up the new version. Assuming that the system was in a consistent state it will download the exact same package that you deleted. The system only ever "updates" when you run
pacman -Sy. Until you use-yall packages are effectively pinned at a specific version. If the version that gets installed is different than the one you removed it probably means that you were breaking the partial update rule previously.