HOLD_PKGS not working?

[Dave Byrne]

Yep thats it.  when portversion is run with the -c option the ouput is
commented out for the linux port (and signified by [held])

but just running portversion with no options masks nothing.

a little bit of a quirk but good to know.

Thanks for the help

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>
To: "Dave Byrne" <dave-lists at glynjones.com>
Cc: "Michael Edenfield" <kutulu at kutulu.org>; <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: HOLD_PKGS not working?


> 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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