selfupdate question

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Feb 12, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:

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> Hi, all.
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> I've got a load of ports that selfupdate tells me that there are
> updates for & I'd like to go ahead with `port upgrade outdated` but
> amongst the list of ports there is just one port I don't want to upgrade.
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> Is there another way to do this rather than explicitly pass arguments
> on the command line for all the ports (there are about thirty ports)?

First off, use "-y dry run".
man port

Second, I'm not sure but try: (you did not mention which port so I'm using ImageMagick for an example.)
$ sudo port -vy upgrade outdated and not name:ImageMagick


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)