Portupgrade and skipping ports?

2003-01-28 Thread Mike Dean
I would like to know if there is a way to have portupgrade update all ports, except a select few that I want to remain "frozen" (OpenOffice.org, simply because I no longer have the free space to rebuild it). It looks like I may be able to do something with the -B switch, but the documentation seem

SoftUpdate woes

2003-01-31 Thread Mike Dean
Maybe someone can straighten me out on something - from what I have read, it seems like softupdates are supposed to accomplish many of the same things as filesystem journaling. However, in my experience with them, they seem almost to be accomplishing the opposite objective. Two or three times my

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Dean
* David Rio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-02 10:02]: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: > > What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to > > spend. I've got a Gateway 450L, and it's working just fine for me. Pretty much everything important seems to b