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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:10:13 -0500
From:      Jeff Elkins <bsd@elkins.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade
Message-ID:  <200401231910.13542.bsd@elkins.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401232320380.14824@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <200401231722.58701.bsd@elkins.org> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401232320380.14824@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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On Friday 23 January 2004 6:21 pm, Jan Grant wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote:
>> Ouch!
>>
>> I'm located somewhere deep within a portupgrade cycle. I misunderstood the
>> command (portupgrade -a), and "assumed" that it would only upgrade ports
>> that I had installed, not pkgs installed with pkg_add -r.
>>
>> How can I avoid portupgrade touching big packages such as KDE, Mozilla and
>> OpenOffice which were installed from binary?
>
>Look for HOLD_PKGS in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

Thanks, Jan.

Jeff



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