portupgrade -P and local changes

[Chris]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:22:04PM -0600, Chris wrote:
> 
>>Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
>>>>
>>>>I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt
>>>>packages for any package that has a Makefile.local file in the tree, as
>>>>a Makefile.local file means I want to build that package with local 
>>>>changes.
>>>
>>>
>>>That's a very specific requirement, then, and I don't think
>>>portupgrade can do it. 
>>>
>>>Kris
>>
>>A snippet from the portupgrade manpage. Note the execution model...
>>Pay close attention to item 1 (-P).
>>
>>I dunno - it's seems fairly clear to me that the manpage does a fine job 
>>detailing just what parm does when. Again, to me at least - this thread 
>>should have halted by telling the user to view the manpage.
> 
> 
> Er..the thread started with a question from a user who *knows about -P
> and uses it*, but doesn't want portupgrade to fetch packages in a
> specific situation.
> 
> Kris

Again, from the manpage ...

"    -x GLOB
      --exclude GLOB         Exclude packages matching the specified 
glob                       			    pattern.  Exclusion is 
performed after 					    recursing dependency in response to -r 					 
  and/or -R, which means, for example, the 					    following command 
will upgrade all the 					    packages depending on XFree86 
but leave 					    XFree86 as it is:
			    portupgrade -rx XFree86 XFree86"


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Chris

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