Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:15:38 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Stefan Malte Schumacher <s.schumacher@netcologne.de> Subject: Re: Portupgrade Message-ID: <20030904001538.GC70199@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20030903235658.GA19665@drachenhorst.fantasy.net> References: <20030903235658.GA19665@drachenhorst.fantasy.net>
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--0vzXIDBeUiKkjNJl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:56:58AM +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > Hi >=20 > I have just run portupgrade -a for the first time. About 2 hours later I > realized that portupgrade is not only building the port I built myself fr= om > /usr/ports but also the packages which I did install from the CD. I do not > want to build Mozilla or XFree myself, is there a way I can exclude such > large programs from being updated ? Are installed ports and packages stor= ed > in the same database ? portupgrade has a config file (/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf), which offers= =20 many config options for you to tweak - including the ability to specify=20 ports to ignore - look for the section about HOLD_PKGS. Ports and packages keep their install data in the same place, yes - /var/db/pkg. > For the next question I just need a pointer to the right documentation ;= =20 > I would like to read more about using sysinstall to upgrade my system > instead of "make world."=20 Have you read man sysinstall? But bear in mind that "make buildworld" was carefully designed to upgrade the system properly. > Is there some kind of "packageupgrade" which downloads and installs new > packages for stuff I do not want to build myself ?=20 The -P or -PP options to portupgrade should work, but read the manpage for caveats. HTH Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --0vzXIDBeUiKkjNJl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE/VoQqhvzwOpChvo8RAiwSAKDm7rl3J/j+Ei4tj5/Y1xmqwF1qrACXf4aZ 4z27h9v1/VecH9ohegWy+A== =5nym -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0vzXIDBeUiKkjNJl--
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