portupgrading only certain ports
Peter
petermatulis at yahoo.ca
Wed Feb 22 21:23:21 PST 2006
--- "Steve P." <rczero at mail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to avoid upgrading two ports: kde and X.
>
> What are the command line options to portupgrade to accomplish this?
>
> For instance, I tried this and it failed:
> #portupgrade -a -x 'kde*' -x 'x*'
>
> Where am I going wrong?
>
> I've read the pertinent handbook ports section, and did man portupgrade,
> but still I can not get it to work. Maybe it has something to do with
> pkg_glob, I don't know.
I never tried this feature but from the man page it seems you do not need
the single quotes. You probably can also just type the package names
(with no glob characters) with or without version numbers.
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