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From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>
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Subject: Re: updating to ghostscript8-8.64_2 fails
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     On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>>     I finally got around it by putting a +IGNOREME file into
>> /var/db/pkg/ghostscript8-8.64_2/ after the following attempts to skip it
>> using the -x option for portmaster failed to do that.
>>
>> 	portmaster -x print/ghostscript8 -v -w -a
>> 	portmaster -x print/ghostscript8\* -v -w -a
>> 	portmaster -x print/ghostscript8-8.64_2 -v -w -a
>
>'portmaster -x ghostscript' should work.
>
     Okay.  I doubt I'll bother with it until there's a new update available.
FWIW, I obviously did not understand from the man page that that would be the
way to get it to work.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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