From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 03:18:14 2004 Return-Path: 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 916D816A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40312.mail.yahoo.com (web40312.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6527143D54 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from satimis@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040603101814.63540.qmail@web40312.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.88.168.231] by web40312.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:18:14 CST Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:18:14 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Liu?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: How to exclude upgrading kde in running 'portupgrade' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:18:14 -0000 Hi folks I am prepared upgrading kde-3.1.4 to kde-3.2.2. Because I am running FreeBSD 5.2 on a slow PC, AMD-k6-350, I will take following route # cd / # pkg_delete kde\* arts\* qt\* quanta\* kdevelop\* # env PACKAGESITE=http://people.fruitsalad.org/lofi/packages/5.2.1-RELEASE/Latest/ pkg_add -r kde However to avoid running into conflict of dependencies which are unknown to me I will run following steps first to upgrade all other packages including dependencies; # cd / # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile and then # portupgrade -aRrv -x kde I don't know whether the '-x' tag will excluding upgrading kde otherwise the PC will run for several days. Any suggestion? TIA B.R. Stephen Liu _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk