From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 26 16:29:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF69F16A4CE for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:29:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D9F343D46 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:29:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldj1066@fastmail.fm) Received: from unknown (HELO pres7000.mylan.net) (donaldj@ameritech.net@69.211.77.206 with plain) by smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Dec 2004 16:29:25 -0000 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:29:05 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20041226090451.2A69A54878@minnie.everett.org> In-Reply-To: <20041226090451.2A69A54878@minnie.everett.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412261029.06037.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: portupgrade -P and local changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:29:26 -0000 On Sunday 26 December 2004 03:04 am, Harlan Stenn wrote: > I have a couple of ports where I am using a Makefile.local to > provide some customizations for the local environment (I think > they are for postfix+SASL, and apache2+the experimental modules, > but I could be mistaken) where "stock" prebuilt packages are > available. > > When I update the installed packages on the box, I like to use: > > portupgrade -Ppa > > The problem I have is that when these two ports get upgraded, > portupgrade fetches and installs the prebuilt packages, which > means I have to remember to then reinstall these two packages > from the ports tree. > > Is there a way to tell portupgrade that it should not *fetch* > prebuilt ports for these two packages? If the packages are > already there I'm fine having them installed (as it means they > were built using the Makefile.local values and wrapped as a > package from the -p flag). > > H > Hi H. -P is telling portupgrade to check for. download and install a pre-built package if one is available. To my mind, stop using -P and you won't get pre-built packages installed by portupgrade it will use the ports tree to make the upgrade. -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm I'm not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.