Tell portmaster to not update dependencies?

[rihad]

Any way to do that? It's trivial to do that using ports directly: cd somewhere; make && make install clean. That's it. Portmaster on the other hand wants to upgrade all port dependencies too, and it tends to become tricky if one of such dependencies is a reverse-dependency of some other port that would then break, etc.

 

[ShelLuser]

Portmaster only updates port dependencies when there's actually a newer version available. And if some weird 'reverse dependency' breaks something then that's not because of Portmaster but because of bad adminipastration administration. If you upgrade you'd normally upgrade all ports for which an update is available.

Do you by any chance mix the installation of ports and packages? Because that could also explain a thing or two...

 

[SirDice]

adminipastration

Is this what pastafarians do?

 

[getopt]

It is what might help after adminicastration.

 

[ShelLuser]

Is this what pastafarians do?

Indeed, it's very advanced

 

[Lamia]

"portmaster --update-if-newer" should do the trick.