re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports

nbco nbco at screaming.net
Fri Dec 31 09:54:25 PST 2004


Hi list,

I am trying out portmanager-0.2.2, on a 5.3-RELEASE box.

I have openoffice-1.1.3.20040810 installed.  I don't want to upgrade 
openoffice at this time, as I don't have the space for a full compile 
and will wait for a new package. 

I have set openoffice to be held in pkgtools.conf in /usr/local/etc.  
Portupgrade honours this setting. Portmanager doesn't, therefore every 
time I attempt to run portmanager it tries to compile 
openoffice-1.1.4.20041101_1

I have looked at portmanager and cannot find a way to prevent it 
updating certain ports, and it doesn't honour the hold_pkgs in 
pkgtools.conf.

Any ideas as to how to make portmanager ignore held ports?

This problem makes portmanager unusable for me, as it updates openoffice 
first, so it never actually gets to the smaller out of date ports.

Many thanks in advance
.nbco



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