portupgrade upgrades ports despite +IGNOREME files
Eli K. Breen
eli at gopostal.ca
Tue Jul 13 09:43:59 PDT 2004
That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
-E-
Craig Boston wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:23:52PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote:
>
>>cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/
>>touch "+IGNOREME"
>
>
> AFAICT, the +IGNOREME file should be in the package directory, not the
> port directory. For example,
>
> cd /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.4/
> touch +IGNOREME
>
>
>>Add 'lang/perl*', as a held package in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to
>>no avail.
>
>
> The -f option to portupgrade overrides held packages and reinstalls them
> anyway. Another possibility that may be useful to you is the -x option
> to portupgrade to exclude certain ports from this run only. i.e.
>
> portupgrade -Raf -x perl
>
> Multiple -x options can be specified if you have a long list of ports
> that you don't want to reinstall.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Craig
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