From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 03:40:30 2004 Return-Path: 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 B38EA16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:40:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC7B43D39 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:40:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0773621C; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:40:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59901-03; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:40:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1879360EA; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:40:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41CF8450.7070308@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:41:04 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041218) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <20041227005634.GA57788@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041227025309.2398C54829@minnie.everett.org> <20041227030927.GA99115@xor.obsecurity.org> <41CF7FDC.4000302@makeworld.com> <20041227032735.GB4830@xor.obsecurity.org> <41CF8375.5070801@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <41CF8375.5070801@makeworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: Harlan Stenn cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: harlan@everett.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: portupgrade -P and local changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:40:30 -0000 Chris wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:22:04PM -0600, Chris wrote: >> >>> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want. >>>>> >>>>> I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt >>>>> packages for any package that has a Makefile.local file in the >>>>> tree, as >>>>> a Makefile.local file means I want to build that package with local >>>>> changes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That's a very specific requirement, then, and I don't think >>>> portupgrade can do it. >>>> Kris >>> >>> >>> A snippet from the portupgrade manpage. Note the execution model... >>> Pay close attention to item 1 (-P). >>> >>> I dunno - it's seems fairly clear to me that the manpage does a fine >>> job detailing just what parm does when. Again, to me at least - this >>> thread should have halted by telling the user to view the manpage. >> >> >> >> Er..the thread started with a question from a user who *knows about -P >> and uses it*, but doesn't want portupgrade to fetch packages in a >> specific situation. >> >> Kris > > > Again, from the manpage ... > > " -x GLOB > --exclude GLOB >Exclude packages matching the specified glob >pattern. Exclusion is performed after >recursing dependency in response to -r >and/or -R, which means, for example, the >following command will upgrade all the >packages depending on XFree86 but leave >XFree86 as it is: > portupgrade -rx XFree86 XFree86" > > Well now - that didn't format like I expected. Sorry about that. Nonetheless, I think the manpage reflects the point. -- Best regards, Chris You may be recognized soon. Hide! If they find you, lie.