[nycbug-talk] pkgng question

Mark Saad mark.saad at ymail.com
Tue Mar 19 10:08:47 EDT 2013


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:52:44AM -0400, Mark Saad wrote:
>> All
>>  I am wondering if there is a way to prevent a pkg from being updated.
>> For example, i want to build a port with custom options that the pkgng
>> repos will not support, and therefore
>> when I run pkg update && pkg upgrade I do not want it to upgrade my
>> custom package.  I cant find any way to do this. Any ideas ?
>>
>
> Tricky question to answer without more info.  What is the port you
> customize?
>
> Glen
>

Glen in my case I use x11/slim build from ports. The current pkg in
http://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/PC-BSD/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/ has
some issue with intel video using KMS. Slim starts but when it trys to
switch to the wm it hangs up and restarts. I am not sure what the
issue is and I would like to rebuild and test out some things. If I
remove slim and go back to "startx" as my user there is no issue
starting X with my wm.

But as a general use case I would like to use this for  devel/boost as
we use some non-default options for boost.


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Mark Saad | mark.saad at ymail.com



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