From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 14:50:09 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 0AA6416A41A for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [204.121.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F0F13C4B7 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:50:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l9PEnuUI022045; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:49:56 -0600 Received: from oppie-mail.lanl.gov (oppie-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.123]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l9PEnrNd021203; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:49:53 -0600 Received: from [128.165.86.10] (secretariat.lanl.gov [128.165.86.10]) by oppie-mail.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FF11F8006; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:49:47 -0600 (MDT) From: James To: Tsu-Fan Cheng In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratories Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:50:10 -0600 Message-Id: <1193323810.4665.21.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: jamesh@lanl.gov X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: portmaster question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamesh@lanl.gov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:50:09 -0000 On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:11 -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > hi, > i been using portmaster for a while when upgrading my ports, often > times when there are some problems in certain ports, e.g. jdk, i will > use "-x jdk" so i can deal with it later. but when there are two or > more of them that need special attention, i cant find a way to do it > right, i tried "-x A -x B", this seems only to register B as > neglected; "-x A B" void B in neglect. can someone show me the way?? > thanks!! > > TFC > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >From man portmaster: [-m arguments for make] [-x glob pattern to exclude from building] -x avoid building ports as dependencies that match this pattern Sounds like it's implemented as a regular expression. Try looking up the regex syntax for the shell it's implemented in (which I think is bourne) and using a grouping expression. James