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Subject: Re: not updating XFree86 related stuff while performing portupgrade
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On Monday 20 October 2003 01:18 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:49:33PM +0800, Michael Lee(HINET) wrote:
> > Is there anyway to avoid updating XFree86 related stuff while performing
> > portupgrade ?
> > XFree86 related stuffs are just too big and take too long for my poor PC
> > to compile them all.
>
> Take a look at the pkgtools.conf file, especially the stuff about HOLD_PKGS
> which does exactly what you want.
>

Also look at the man page for portupgrade. The example for -x is exactly what 
you are talking about. 

Kent

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