Hold yay package at current version

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I have been experimenting with Sayonara, the stable version forget the column sizes and the git version shows ghost files which don’t exist. The beta version is perfect.

How can I make sure it doesn’t get upgraded? I have a test system I can try new versions on but for my main one I would like to wait.

yay -Ss sayonara
aur/sayonara-player-beta 1.6.0_beta7-2 (+2 0.02) (Installed)
    Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses Gstreamer as audio backend.
aur/sayonara-player-git 1.6.0.beta7.r80.g5998d429-1 (+9 0.02) 
    Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses Gstreamer as audio backend.
aur/sayonara-player 1.5.1_stable5-2 (+63 0.70) 
    Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses Gstreamer as audio backend.

I have done some searching but that seems to point to pacman not yay, same thing?

Any help gratefully received, sorry for such a noob question.

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sudo pacman -Syu

Won’t upgrade any program from AUR, only from the arch repository.

There must also be an option to update via yay and select package to be upgraded.

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Here from the arch wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Installing_specific_packages

To have a specific package skipped when upgrading the system, specify it as such:

IgnorePkg=linux

For multiple packages use a space-separated list, or use additional IgnorePkg lines.

Not sure if it works with yay

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I sure yay look at /etc/pacman.conf so above should work

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Thanks, I will add the edit and report back if it doesn’t work

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It should work.

yay does honor IgnorePkg for AUR packages.

Just make sure you remove the # in front of it.

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