openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

[Duane Winner]

nbco wrote:

>On Friday 07 January 2005 17:56, albi wrote:
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>>Duane Winner wrote:
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>>>We generally do a "portupgrade -a" to upgrade ports unless
>>>/usr/ports/UPDATING affects us. How can I get around the openoffice
>>>discrepency since a portupgrade -a will always try build it again
>>>and end up failing?>
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>>a dirty solution is to press ctrl-c when OOo tries to build, i know
>>from experience that portupgrade simply continues with the rest
>>without any complaints :)
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>Alterntively, set openoffice to be held in pkgtools.conf 
>in /usr/local/etc.  I have added the following line:  
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>HOLD_PKGS = ['openoffice-*']
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>This entry will prevent portupgrade attempting to upgrade the port.  
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Ooohh...I think I like this better than the '-x' switch. I'll have to 
give it a wirl.
Thanks,
DW

>If you are using portmanager see this thread to see how to avoid 
>portmanager attempting to upgrade a held port:
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-January/070055.html
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>Hope this helps
>.nbco
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>>Portupgrade honours this setting.
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>>but i assume in the Makefile (in the OOo-portsdir) one can put an
>>IGNORE somewhere
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