Revisiting the idea of "pinning" ports

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Tue Oct 3 23:02:07 UTC 2023


On Oct 2, 2023, at 1:46 PM, Gregorio Litenstein <g.litenstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> More than pinning per-se, I'm wonndering if it'd be feasible to add some mechanism to opt-out from updates/rebuilds of outdated ports in some specific cases.

You can do this today by creating your own local (partial) portindex with the version of the port(s) you don't want to upgrade.

See also /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf

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Daniel J. Luke



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