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Subject: Re: portupgrade questions
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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 10:55, Darksidex wrote:
> Richard Danter wrote:
> > 1. If I do "portupgrade -rR port" it will recompile the new version of
> > "port" and related ports as expected but it will also try to compile up
> > any packages that are dependent. Is there a way to tell it not to
> > upgrade packages, or to upgrade them using a new package?
>
> portupgrade -rRPP port => this will force portupgrade to use only ports



Also look at the HOLD_PKGS array in pkgtools.conf