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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:58:16 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade -P and local changes
Message-ID:  <200412261258.17222.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041226090451.2A69A54878@minnie.everett.org>
References:  <20041226090451.2A69A54878@minnie.everett.org>

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On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:04, 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).

One thing you could do is enter them in HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf, so that 
they wont be upgraded by portupgrade -a



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