Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 23:21:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Jeff Elkins <bsd@elkins.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401232320380.14824@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200401231722.58701.bsd@elkins.org> References: <200401231722.58701.bsd@elkins.org>
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Ouch! > > I'm located somewhere deep within a portupgrade cycle. I misunderstood the > command (portupgrade -a), and "assumed" that it would only upgrade ports that > I had installed, not pkgs installed with pkg_add -r. > > How can I avoid portupgrade touching big packages such as KDE, Mozilla and > OpenOffice which were installed from binary? Look for HOLD_PKGS in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Axioms speak louder than words.
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