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Date:      Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:38:25 +0300
From:      Ross <basarevych@gmail.com>
To:        Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I am trying to update one of my machines and I ran portmaster -a and got errors:
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=145268
>
> I overcome most by unselecting GNUTLS from cups-image and cups-base,
> and then comes
>
> ===>>> Launching child to update libreoffice-3.3.3_2 to libreoffice-3.4.2_1
>
> ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice
>
>        ===>>> This port is marked BROKEN
>        ===>>> build is too fragile and break too often -- try libreoffice-legacy
>
>        ===>>> If you are sure you can build it, remove the
>               BROKEN line in the Makefile and try again.
>
> ===>>> Update for libreoffice-3.3.3_2 failed
> ===>>> Aborting update
>
> Is there a way to update most packages except this one?
>
> or should I uninstall it and reinstall it again later?  This is not
> optimal, but it would be something I can try.  I would prefer not to
> do this :(
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Antonio
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Maybe I spent to little time with portmaster, but I eventually
switched to portupgrade. I'ts more mature in my opinion. And
portupgrade -a doesn't have the problem you are referring to.



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