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Subject: Re: HOLD_PKGS not working?
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On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:27, Dave Byrne wrote:
> However none of the above are masking linux_base and linux-sun-jdk from
> portversion.

I think the comment is wrong; I've held packages with HOLD_PKGS and
while portupgrade honors it, portversion does not.  (Although... does
portversion perhaps only honor it when run with the -c option?)

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