On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:03:02PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear all, > > I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I > know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports > (portupgrade -af).
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Not necessarily. Upgrading all ports is only mandatory after a major version update, e.g. from 6.x to 7.x because of changed shared library versions. A point release should not affect shared library versions. Personally, I like to keep the ports on my desktop updated every other week or so, depending on if I see something interesting on freshports... > I have one port - mailman - which I have customized > a lot and do not really want to upgrade it as it will most likely mean > I will have to hack a few files again. > > What options do I have so that I do not break the setup? > > I am thinking of: > > 1/ backing up the hacked files and restoring them later (but I will > overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). You should merge any differences by hand instead of overwriting them. 'diff -u' is your friend there. > 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and > upgrading as root I will overwrite them anyway). 'chflags schg,sunlnk <files>' (as root) will do the trick. Even root cannot overwrite these without removing the flags. > And that would be it. My wisdom ends here. Is there any option to > survive the ports upgrade? :) Touch /var/db/pkg/mailman/+IGNOREME. This should make both portmaster and portupgrade leave this port alone. > If not, I guess I will just have to hack Mailman files again after the > upgrade... Or see if you can get your changes comitted upstream. Maybe as OPTIONS? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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