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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:34:19 +0000
From:      nbco <nbco@screaming.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <200501071934.19722.nbco@screaming.net>
In-Reply-To: <41DECD31.7020107@scii.nl>
References:  <41DEAAFA.1050504@att.net> <41DEC203.4010409@att.net> <41DECD31.7020107@scii.nl>

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On Friday 07 January 2005 17:56, albi wrote:
> Duane Winner wrote:
> > We generally do a "portupgrade -a" to upgrade ports unless
> > /usr/ports/UPDATING affects us. How can I get around the openoffice
> > discrepency since a portupgrade -a will always try build it again
> > and end up failing?>
> a dirty solution is to press ctrl-c when OOo tries to build, i know
> from experience that portupgrade simply continues with the rest
> without any complaints :)

Alterntively, set openoffice to be held in pkgtools.conf 
in /usr/local/etc.  I have added the following line:  

HOLD_PKGS = ['openoffice-*']

This entry will prevent portupgrade attempting to upgrade the port.  

If you are using portmanager see this thread to see how to avoid 
portmanager attempting to upgrade a held port:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-January/070055.html

Hope this helps
.nbco


> Portupgrade honours this setting.
>
> but i assume in the Makefile (in the OOo-portsdir) one can put an
> IGNORE somewhere
>
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