Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:35:11 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net> Cc: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Skipping certain ports, no upgrade of installed packages ... Message-ID: <44DF389F.9010807@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20060813091219.a2d5377e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> References: <1155466969.52536.15.camel@localhost> <44DF0843.8010303@gmx.de> <1155467479.52536.20.camel@localhost> <44DF0DFF.9000105@gmail.com> <20060813091219.a2d5377e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
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Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:33:19 +0200
> Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Kiffin Gish schreef:
>>> On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 13:08 +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>>> Kiffin Gish wrote:
>>>>> How can prevent a given package from being reinstalled during the next
>>>>> portupgrade when I want to delete permanently?
>>>>>
>>>>> An example is the Galeon browser. Since it also appears in the
>>>>> gnome2-fifth-toe makefile t will automatically be rebuilt.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2nd question: how can I just keep a given version without having it
>>>>> upgraded?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks alot in advance.
>>>>>
>>>> .if ${.CURDIR:M/usr/ports/category/port}
>>>> IGNORE= not wanted
>>>> .endif
>>>>
>>>> This will keep the ports system from building them. But you will have to
>>>> edit dependant ports Makefiles. I'm doing that for arts and have to edit
>>>> the kdelibs Makefile every time kdelibs gets updated.
>>> The only problem with that approach is that every time I run cvsup the
>>> modified makefiles are overwritten.
>>>
>>> Can also just delete the dependencies line containing galeon for
>>> example, but overwritten by next cvsup.
>>>
>> You can also try portsnap, which only overwrites ports which have been
>> changed by a commit.
>
> I'm not sure that is true for portsnap under all conditions. From
> the portsnap man page:
>
> extract Extract a ports tree, replacing existing files and
> directories. NOTE: This will remove anything occupying
> the location where files or directories are being
> extracted; in particular, any changes made locally to
> ports tree (for example, adding new patches) will be
> silently obliterated.
>
You forget that extract is only called for the first time portsnap is used.
Afterwards you use 'portsnap fetch update', which has the desired behaviour.
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