not updating XFree86 related stuff while performing portupgrade

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Mon Oct 20 01:18:33 PDT 2003


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.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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