Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:25:08 -0400 From: Mike Hauber <m.hauber@mchsi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portugrade -aR (except) Message-ID: <200408051025.08323.m.hauber@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040805102204.04dda75c.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> References: <200408050956.51071.m.hauber@mchsi.com> <20040805102204.04dda75c.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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Whoa. This would definately help with the "in the morning fixes" as well. lol... I didn't even know that was there. Thanks so much! On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:22 am, Randy Pratt proclaimed: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:56:50 -0400 > > Mike Hauber <m.hauber@mchsi.com> wrote: > > Greetings, all. > > > > I am running 4.10-Stable, and I have the following > > question about portupgrade. > > > > So far, I have not had a successful build of OpenOffice > > (on any version of FreeBSD... ever... so I use their > > binaries as they become available), and the samba port > > is broken (until I upgrade the system to 5.x). > > > > What I do now is simply grep a list of installed ports > > with updates available and send the outbut to a file. > > (ie, # portversion | grep "<" > ~/pupdate.sh ) > > > > Then I edit ~/pupdate.sh so that every line begins with > > "portupgrade -R." (And, of course, I delete the samba > > and OpenOffice entries) In other words my file would > > look something like this: > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > portupgrade -R blip > > portupgrade -R blop > > portupgrade -R bluey > > <<< > > > > make it executable, run it overnight, and fix the small > > stuff in the morning. > > > > Obviously, because I like to upgrade my systems every > > week, this gets old. Is there any way I can tell > > portupgrade to simply portupgrade -aR (except for a > > specific list of packages)? > > > > If not, does anyone have a more simple solution? > > > > And again, if not, would this be considered a worthy > > suggestion for the developers of /portupgrade? > > > > Thanks > > Hi, > > I think what you're looking for is > /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf . > > Here is an excerpt from that file: > > # HOLD_PKGS: array > # > # This is a list of ports you don't want portupgrade(1) > to upgrade, # portversion(1) to suggest upgrading, or > pkgdb(1) to fix. > > Its a very handy tool since you can also set make > variables which portupgrade will also honor. > > Best regards, > > Randy
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