Skipping certain ports, no upgrade of installed packages ...

[Kiffin Gish]

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 13:08 +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> Kiffin Gish wrote:
> > How can prevent a given package from being reinstalled during the next
> > portupgrade when I want to delete permanently?
> > 
> > An example is the Galeon browser. Since it also appears in the
> > gnome2-fifth-toe makefile t will automatically be rebuilt.
> > 
> > 2nd question: how can I just keep a given version without having it
> > upgraded?
> > 
> > Thanks alot in advance.
> > 
> 
> .if ${.CURDIR:M/usr/ports/category/port}
> IGNORE=	not wanted
> .endif
> 
> This will keep the ports system from building them. But you will have to
> edit dependant ports Makefiles. I'm doing that for arts and have to edit
> the kdelibs Makefile every time kdelibs gets updated.

The only problem with that approach is that every time I run cvsup the
modified makefiles are overwritten.

Can also just delete the dependencies line containing galeon for
example, but overwritten by next cvsup.

-- 
Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl>