Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:56:50 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "Michael Lee(HINET)" <kuniaki.lee@msa.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: not updating XFree86 related stuff while performing portupgrade Message-ID: <200310200156.50405.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20031020081821.GD15500@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <000b01c396de$b3f9bb20$ca00a8c0@michael> <20031020081821.GD15500@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Monday 20 October 2003 01:18 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:49:33PM +0800, Michael Lee(HINET) wrote: > > Is there anyway to avoid updating XFree86 related stuff while performing > > portupgrade ? > > XFree86 related stuffs are just too big and take too long for my poor PC > > to compile them all. > > Take a look at the pkgtools.conf file, especially the stuff about HOLD_PKGS > which does exactly what you want. > Also look at the man page for portupgrade. The example for -x is exactly what you are talking about. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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