From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Jan 23 16:11:10 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 68A1216A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:11:10 -0800 (PST)
Received: from elkins.org (user41.net272.fl.sprint-hsd.net [64.45.235.41])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A171343D83
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:10:14 -0800 (PST)	(envelope-from bsd@elkins.org)
Received: from kathix.elkins ([192.168.0.10])
	by elkins.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian))
	id 1AkBNO-0005ea-00
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:10:14 -0500
From: Jeff Elkins <bsd@elkins.org>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:10:13 -0500
User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4
References: <200401231722.58701.bsd@elkins.org>
	<Pine.GSO.4.58.0401232320380.14824@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401232320380.14824@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200401231910.13542.bsd@elkins.org>
Subject: Re: portupgrade
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:11:10 -0000

On Friday 23 January 2004 6:21 pm, Jan Grant wrote:
>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

Thanks, Jan.

Jeff