request for port peg command, to lock down a port at the currently installed version

db iamsudo at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 22:01:31 UTC 2018


On 6 Mar 2018, at 15:50, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> port peg PORTNAME

brew pin FORMULA? There shouldn't be shame in mentioning it. As Arno pointed out, it gets tricky with deps, it's eventually overridden if necessary.

As I raised in another topic, port upgrade could preempt building ports with open defects by querying trac first.

On 6 Mar 2018, at 16:16, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you use --no-upgrade, exactly?

He might be referring to upgrade action's switches -n (no dependencies) and -R (dependents), which is different from peg.


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