> You can try sudo port upgrade outdated and not <portname>

Thanks, I have forgotten the syntax for that. I guess I could make an 
alias/function of it.

> An even better feature would be a custom marking procedure that would allow a 
> user to “label” certain ports

That would be ideal. Would it be feasible using a git checkout to manage all 
ports?

On 14 Feb 2017, at 17:52, Carlo Tambuatco <[email protected]> wrote:

> An even better feature would be a custom marking procedure that would allow a 
> user to “label” certain ports such as mysetofvideoports or mysetoftexteditors 
> or whatever and then allow port actions to ignore or perform 
> operations on just those sets. You could then create your own custom 
> blacklist or whitelist or whatever.
> 
> The only label that I know of right now is setrequested and unsetrequested.
> 
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Sure would be handy if one could optionally have ports that failed to 
>> upgrade blacklisted (for that version only), so that “port upgrade” could 
>> still do everything else.
>> 
>>> On Feb 14, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Carlo Tambuatco <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can try sudo port upgrade outdated and not <portname>
>>> 
>>> or 
>>> 
>>> sudo port upgrade outdated and not <portname> and not rdependentof: 
>>> <portname> (not sure of the exact syntax, here) 
>>> 
>>> To ignore a port and its recursive dependencies…
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 14, 2017, at 6:03 AM, db <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> How can I mark a port to not be upgraded by `port upgrade outdated`, for 
>>>> example, one that has a bug in my system version?
>>> 
>> 
> 

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