From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 11:13:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0261E16A419 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2FE13C459 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so215227uge for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:13:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=LbvJ6yM0NHiLvw6QPfuXJ+yXViUCqSAgkW6A60bg7X6C65WNpjP5DJc7ZIWJljD667r38w6IWqWZGKP9jcWBYyBgHp+tJqZ0O1P5WZhRQb70Z65uDd4DZsaub+6ZiwUA92al2tHye5OZsaWGsxRKiGorG+8qGV8t4Qj0qaUr4RU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=gylst6maAHEw6kfuE6tmOLyuKdgS9A/uCcuJg8TW1haEFs/yt/DMUTibBstsgb2H+izZQgpln8gqKpY5K4MA5x7w/oKXcru38M+ZOGKuOtPcChQ+QJDjhNAlRHWIT8bqxI9yRXd+FC9gB67NdOOJOMuSLKXgk3PJ0vPj0RlSyRc= Received: by 10.67.95.3 with SMTP id x3mr1285371ugl.1185966835431; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com ( [86.18.88.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c25sm1301447ika.2007.08.01.04.13.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46B06AEF.5090501@crackmonkey.us> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:13:51 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Short References: <597769.9286.qm@web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <597769.9286.qm@web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam J Richardson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg update (not) - configuration for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:13:59 -0000 Neil Short wrote: > several of my computers run just fine on the old xorg. > Is there some configuration tool I can put into some > makefile somewhere that will tell the ports to use the > un-updated version of xorg - so the ports won't try to > update stuff in the xorg libraries? > > I updated xorg on one computer that needed it and I > was shocked that every single application needed to be > recompiled - including the big woppers like open > office. I don't want to go through that again if I > don't have to. Hi Neil, There's a number of ways. This question was asked recently. You can use IGNORE lines in your portsmanager config, or HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf if you prefer portupgrade. Adam J Richardson