June 28, 2005

Stop package from upgrading

Question: How do I tell portupgrade to not upgrade a particular port? Say, an upgraded app breaks on my system and I want it to be ignored when I do an "upgrade all" via portupgrade. Answer:
  • Use the '-x' option
  • Long term solution - HOLD_PKGS in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

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