On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:35, Godwin Stewart wrote: > No, the problem's the other way round. Every time I want to portupgrade > something else, portupgrade also wants to upgrade Xorg. I don't want the > latest Xorg after the horror stories I heard. > > That's why I'm building firefox-1.0.1 independently of the ports system, so > that I don't have to go through the pain of upgrading Xorg (on which > firefox depends, naturally) as well.
You can tell portupgrade and friends to ignore certain packages - ie --exclude. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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