Installing portupgrade without X.org

Lewis Thompson lewiz at compsoc.man.ac.uk
Sat Apr 9 09:56:19 PDT 2005


On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:26:48PM +0100, Paul Waring wrote:
> I'm currently trying to get portupgrade onto my new FreeBSD system by
> running make install clean from /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade (after
> doing a recent cvsup). Everything seems to go along fine, it starts
> fetching all the packages it requires and then suddenly I see a
> download for X.org.

It is not portupgrade that needs X but a dependent port.  Which specific
port?  In general just with WITHOUT_X11=1 to /etc/make.conf.  Once
you've got portupgrade installed you can control individual ports more
specifically through editing pkgtools.conf in /usr/local/etc.

-Lewis Thompson.

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