Skipping certain ports, no upgrade of installed packages ...

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:33:19 +0200
> Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Kiffin Gish schreef:
>>> On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 13:08 +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>>> Kiffin Gish wrote:
>>>>> How can prevent a given package from being reinstalled during the next
>>>>> portupgrade when I want to delete permanently?
>>>>>
>>>>> An example is the Galeon browser. Since it also appears in the
>>>>> gnome2-fifth-toe makefile t will automatically be rebuilt.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2nd question: how can I just keep a given version without having it
>>>>> upgraded?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks alot in advance.
>>>>>
>>>> .if ${.CURDIR:M/usr/ports/category/port}
>>>> IGNORE=	not wanted
>>>> .endif
>>>>
>>>> This will keep the ports system from building them. But you will have to
>>>> edit dependant ports Makefiles. I'm doing that for arts and have to edit
>>>> the kdelibs Makefile every time kdelibs gets updated.
>>> The only problem with that approach is that every time I run cvsup the
>>> modified makefiles are overwritten.
>>>
>>> Can also just delete the dependencies line containing galeon for
>>> example, but overwritten by next cvsup.
>>>
>> You can also try portsnap, which only overwrites ports which have been
>> changed by a commit.
> 
> I'm not sure that is true for portsnap under all conditions.  From
> the portsnap man page:
> 
>   extract   Extract a ports tree, replacing existing files and
>             directories.  NOTE: This will remove anything occupying
>             the location where files or directories are being
>             extracted; in particular, any changes made locally to
>             ports tree (for example, adding new patches) will be
>             silently obliterated.
> 

You forget that extract is only called for the first time portsnap is used.
Afterwards you use 'portsnap fetch update', which has the desired behaviour.