openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

[Duane Winner]

Joshua Lokken wrote:

>On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:58:22 -0500, Duane Winner <dwinner-lists at att.net> wrote:
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>>gustaaf wijnands wrote:
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>>>>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)
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>>>>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?
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>>>portupgrade -a -x openoffice-1.1.3 ??
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>>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.
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>>-DW
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>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. 
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Oh yeah, this *is* definately better. Just tried it.
The first reason being is that it removes the chance of forgetting the 
'-x' and walking away, but I was also delighted with this output:
---> Skipping 'editors/openoffice-1.1' because it is held by user 
(specify -f to force)

Which makes it nice to remember it's still there, and when the port gets 
fixed for 5.3, I'll be reminded to try again at some point.

Cheers,
DW