Re: portupgrade upgrades ports despite +IGNOREME files

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:23:52PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote:
> cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/
> touch "+IGNOREME"

AFAICT, the +IGNOREME file should be in the package directory, not the
port directory.  For example,

cd /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.4/
touch +IGNOREME
 
> Add 'lang/perl*', as a held package in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to 
> no avail.

The -f option to portupgrade overrides held packages and reinstalls them
anyway.  Another possibility that may be useful to you is the -x option
to portupgrade to exclude certain ports from this run only.  i.e.

portupgrade -Raf -x perl

Multiple -x options can be specified if you have a long list of ports
that you don't want to reinstall.

Hope this helps,
Craig