set port not to upgrade

Ralph Seichter macports-ml at seichter.de
Tue Feb 14 16:56:37 UTC 2017


On 14.02.17 16:52, petr.2006 wrote:

> On gentoo I prefer to modify /etc/portage/package.mask where I can
> specify packages' versions which I do not want to upgrade.

Masking is useful, of course, but there is a difference between not
wanting to upgrade and not being able to upgrade due to a port/package
failure. Hence, I mentioned "emerge --resume --skipfirst" as a model for
how the latter can be handled.

-Ralph


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