From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 2:38:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD0337B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 02:38:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc1-cmbg1-4-cust43.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [62.253.133.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E69B43F79 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 02:38:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18dpbY-000H1D-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:38:04 +0000 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:38:04 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade and skipping ports? Message-ID: <20030129103803.GB65088@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030129030633.GA4512@evertek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030129030633.GA4512@evertek.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *18dpbY-000H1D-00*GmxHryUV9wI* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:06:33PM -0600, Mike Dean wrote: > I would like to know if there is a way to have portupgrade update all > ports, except a select few that I want to remain "frozen" > (OpenOffice.org, simply because I no longer have the free space to > rebuild it). It looks like I may be able to do something with the -B > switch, but the documentation seems to be a bit lacking as to exactly > how to use this switch. Does anyone have any examples of how to > accomplish what I want? If this is to be a "permanent" freeze, you could put it in to the /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. Look for "HOLD_PKGS". It defines an array of name globs that expand to the name of the held ports. For example, I use Exim 3 and don't want to have it upgraded to 4, so my HOLD_PKGS looks like this: HOLD_PKGS = [ 'bsdpan-*', 'exim*', ] The bsdpan one seems to be there by default. Dan > > Thanks, > Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message