§ Excluding packages from MacPorts operations
As much as I’d like to jump whole hog on the PHP 5.3 bandwagon I just haven’t had the time to read up on the compatibility issues not work out what I’d need to do to maintain a PHP 5.2 and a PHP 5.3 environment on my computer. For now I’ll just be sticking with PHP 5.2.x.
This creates a problem, though, as MacPorts constantly lists my PHP 5.2 as outdated.
While I don’t want to upgrade to PHP 5.3 right away, I still want to have a quick and easy upgrade of everything else that I have installed. There’s not any clear documentation about excluding ports from a port command, but there is a tasty morsel in the port man page.
Logical operators "and", "or", "not", "!", "(" and ")" may be
used to combine individual portnames, port glob patterns and/or
pseudo-portnames to construct complex port expressions that
expand to the set of matching ports. For example:
port upgrade installed and apache*
port echo maintainer:jberry and uninstalled and \
( category:java and not commons* )
That means I can do this to exclude the PHP 5.3 upgrade until I’m ready:
sudo port upgrade outdated and not php*
A little less than optimal as I’d love to be able to modify a config file somewhere to effect this change on a global level but I’ll take this until that functionality gets added or until someone points me to where I might find that special config setting.
I could probably do something similar to my svn pre-/post-commit client side hooks hack, but I get the feeling that I’d forget about this one if I did it and end up cursing my computer later when it won’t install PHP 5.3 😉
Tagged as: exclude macports
