From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 11:12:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8F71065673 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B049A8FC12 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so832059wwb.31 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:12:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YzODVMDzYO+e22pVKaOjtON5LEDjsIW4UmWmu/Qaaj8=; b=k4kHtMEVxqiPSh5coZYGnP+FSmH7WylNs0YOGY7Zr0ZuabZZ16U0qK/TiEzF9qbFrs q9dEFwLywDu0kOudL+z8BtqjVhkn2BquS0M+c2rCpDuVPwfMJ4tIzOu4qyU58w+YZH6D T/CafdeCZmtLVzjX4pbQAaZfnnLXGKHPCDk4k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t9JtJrbW2e4U+NGfxvDuP15FFIYdr8UNbZbIHswEisQxqlogdY/+G9/c430keQ/Seu cAwK7+sRptx262B5MJ4z+Jl19FgRUGdYhJpQg96ljlfqlt9+rjt9/CO5fpZPw7S6vSXe uMIMHVZD4vwN1NUkTW2LjHG7XYzHqQ7o9yYTg= Received: by 10.216.153.140 with SMTP id f12mr228628wek.111.1286968377548; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x12sm2035756weq.42.2010.10.13.04.12.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:12:53 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101013121253.30b9e0f7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net> References: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: portupgrade command line option -f problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:12:59 -0000 On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100 David Southwell wrote: > Hi > > man portupgrade advises: > > -f > --force Force the upgrade of a package even if it > is to be a downgrade or just a reinstall of the same ver- > sion, or the port is held by user using > the HOLD_PKGS variable in pkgtools.conf. > > In practice on freebsd 7.2 p3 amd generic I find that uptodate > packages are excluded! > [Exclude up-to-date packages ............ > [done] I think it's misleading, in my experience it does then go on to reinstall the ports. If nothing gets rebuilt try specifying the full package name or the origin.