openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

Joshua Lokken joshua.lokken at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 12:02:23 PST 2005


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:58:22 -0500, Duane Winner <dwinner-lists at att.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> gustaaf wijnands wrote:
> 
> >> Just a couple more questions:
> >> If I keep my ports tree cvsup'd every day, I'm going to have:
> >> openoffice-1.1.3         < needs updating (port has 1.1.3_1)
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >
> > portupgrade -a -x openoffice-1.1.3 ??
> >
> 
> I must be losing it. I looked at the man page twice and didn't see that
> -x switch. Must be Friday or something.
> Thanks -- that does it.
> 
> -DW

However, please note the response that mentions using 
HOLD_PKG in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf; that'll save
you from having to use -x at all. 


-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate


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