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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:12:53 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade command line option -f problem
Message-ID:  <20101013121253.30b9e0f7@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net>
References:  <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net>

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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100
David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> 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.



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