Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:39:57 -0400 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade command line option -f problem Message-ID: <20101013053957.1c9fcd5d@scorpio> 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> articulated: > 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] > > Whereas I wish to have all identified packages rebuilt even if they > are shown as being up to date. This may be necessary if, for example, > a change has been made to make.conf which affects ports might have an > up to date version but were compiled prior to the changes in > make.conf. > > Unless I am mistaken it seems as though the -f option not produce > results I expect after reading the man page. You could use 'portmanager -f'. I can guarantee that it will rebuild everything. -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Lawrence Radiation Laboratory keeps all its data in an old gray trunk.
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