Solved How to exclude packages from pkg

[yaslam]

Most of my system has packages installed through ports-mgmt/pkg, with one package editors/emacs-devel manually compiled through the ports system because I need to use my own compilation options with it.
With this, I run into problems with pkg and the port conflicting, when the port has an update, pkg picks that up and when I run pkg upgrade it says:

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
    emacs-devel-30.0.50.202211128,2 (options changed)

But I don't want this port to be reinstalled as a package, because then it will not have the options I compiled it with, it will be the generic binary version from pkg, how do I stop this conflict, or am I not understanding something correctly?

 

[SirDice]

You could pkg-lock(8) it. But keep in mind that you will have to keep track of updates yourself, because it will also be excluded with any pkg-upgrade(8).

 

[yaslam]

You could pkg-lock(8) it. But keep in mind that you will have to keep track of updates yourself, because it will also be excluded with any pkg-upgrade(8).

Great, thanks. Yeah I'm totally fine with that.

 

[bgroper]

A very useful command that is relevant in this context.
pkg lock --show-locked

 

[scottro]

pkg lock -l will also give a list of locked packages.

 

[SirDice]

Options -l and --show-locked are equivalent.

     -l, --show-locked
          Show a list of all locked packages.  This can be used without
          locking or unlocking any packages, in which case privileged access
          to the package database is not required.  Otherwise it will be
          displayed after any lock or unlock operations.

pkg-lock(8)