portupgrade

Jan Grant Jan.Grant at bristol.ac.uk
Fri Jan 23 15:26:44 PST 2004


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote:

> Ouch!
>
> I'm located somewhere deep within a portupgrade cycle. I misunderstood the
> command (portupgrade -a), and "assumed" that it would only upgrade ports that
> I had installed, not pkgs installed with pkg_add -r.
>
> How can I avoid portupgrade touching big packages such as KDE, Mozilla and
> OpenOffice which were installed from binary?

Look for HOLD_PKGS in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf


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