On gentoo I prefer to modify /etc/portage/package.mask where I can specify packages' versions which I do not want to upgrade.
> On 14 Feb 2017, at 16:30, Ralph Seichter <macports...@seichter.de> wrote: > > On 14.02.2017 16:12, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > >> Sure would be handy if one could optionally have ports that failed to >> upgrade blacklisted (for that version only), so that “port upgrade” >> could still do everything else. > > Gentoo's "emerge" (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage#emerge) offers a > useful combination of options to skip faulty packages when updating. If > an update fails, calling > > emerge --resume --skipfirst ... > > will continue the last operation, passing over the problematic package. > If "port upgrade" could be made to offer similar functionality, that > would be helpful. > > -Ralph
