How would I Upgrade Outdated but hold back or not update one specific package?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jun 17, 2014, at 11:34 AM, bunk3m <bunk3m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to run upgrade outdated while holding back or avoiding
> updating MyPaint?  I haven't found this in the docs.

The key is to realize that 'outdated' expands into a list of outdated ports.

So you can do something like sudo port upgrade outdated and not MyPaint

> A follow-on question.
> Is there a way to specifically reinstall MyPaint 1.1.0_2 as it compiled
> OK before?

not a simple answer, but:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort

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