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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:53:52 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Robert Munn <munn@pcp243550pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade issue
Message-ID:  <20040826205352.GD14825@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040826204139.GA46342@pcp243550pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net>
References:  <20040826204139.GA46342@pcp243550pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net>

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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:41:39PM -0400, Robert Munn wrote:
> In doing a portupgrade I occasionally get the message
>=20
> --->  Skipping 'databases/p5-DBI-137' because it is held by user
> (specify -f to force)
>=20
> adding -r to the command generally fails.  How can I 'unhold' a port succ=
essfully?

Ports are held by adding entries to the HOLD_PKGS array in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.  You probably have one you need to remove.

-- Brooks

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Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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