From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 03:36:46 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 0B2E416A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9050343D3F for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:36:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA36621C; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:36:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59901-01; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:36:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1065660EA; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:36:32 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41CF8375.5070801@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:37:25 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041218) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <20041227005634.GA57788@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041227025309.2398C54829@minnie.everett.org> <20041227030927.GA99115@xor.obsecurity.org> <41CF7FDC.4000302@makeworld.com> <20041227032735.GB4830@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041227032735.GB4830@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: Harlan Stenn cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: harlan@everett.org 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: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:36:46 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:22:04PM -0600, Chris wrote: > >>Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want. >>>> >>>>I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt >>>>packages for any package that has a Makefile.local file in the tree, as >>>>a Makefile.local file means I want to build that package with local >>>>changes. >>> >>> >>>That's a very specific requirement, then, and I don't think >>>portupgrade can do it. >>> >>>Kris >> >>A snippet from the portupgrade manpage. Note the execution model... >>Pay close attention to item 1 (-P). >> >>I dunno - it's seems fairly clear to me that the manpage does a fine job >>detailing just what parm does when. Again, to me at least - this thread >>should have halted by telling the user to view the manpage. > > > Er..the thread started with a question from a user who *knows about -P > and uses it*, but doesn't want portupgrade to fetch packages in a > specific situation. > > Kris Again, from the manpage ... " -x GLOB --exclude GLOB Exclude packages matching the specified glob pattern. Exclusion is performed after recursing dependency in response to -r and/or -R, which means, for example, the following command will upgrade all the packages depending on XFree86 but leave XFree86 as it is: portupgrade -rx XFree86 XFree86" -- Best regards, Chris You may be recognized soon. Hide! If they find you, lie.