Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:49:24 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Several version of gcc Message-ID: <20070729164923.GB84095@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <46AC6EEE.8040201@boosten.org> References: <46AC6EEE.8040201@boosten.org>
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:41:50PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, > installed as dependencies for other packages. > > These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. > > Since these packages seem to be updated daily (at least once a week) and > updating these packages take forever, this is becoming quite a burden. > > Is there any smart setting in /etc/make.conf that keeps my system from > eanting to update these? I think portupgrade uses HOLD_PKGS, check the docs. Or you could just delete them if they are unused, they were probably used at some point to compile something but may be no longer required. Kris
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