xorg update (not) - configuration for ports

[Adam J Richardson]

Neil Short wrote:
> several of my computers run just fine on the old xorg.
> Is there some configuration tool I can put into some
> makefile somewhere that will tell the ports to use the
> un-updated version of xorg - so the ports won't try to
> update stuff in the xorg libraries?
> 
> I updated xorg on one computer that needed it and I
> was shocked that every single application needed to be
> recompiled - including the big woppers like open
> office. I don't want to go through that again if I
> don't have to.

Hi Neil,

There's a number of ways. This question was asked recently. You can use 
IGNORE lines in your portsmanager config, or HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf 
if you prefer portupgrade.

Adam J Richardson