portupgrading only certain ports

[Duane Whitty]

Peter wrote:
> --- "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.
> 
> 
Hi,

portupgrade -a upgrades all installed ports.  Try 
portupgrade -rR -x 'kde*' -x 'x*' *

Maybe use the -n option with the above to see what 
would happen without doing anything.

With a regex maybe this would work

portupgrade -rRx :[kde|x]  or something along 
these lines.  -n is a good safety valve I think

hth,

--Duane