Re: portupgrade upgrades ports despite +IGNOREME files

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

-E-

Craig Boston wrote:
> 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