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Subject: ports installation issue
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I want to reinstall some ports collections but am running into the following
error message:

Package `xfmail-0.3b' already recorded as installed.

I tried the '-f' flag but this didn't help.  How can I convince my systems that
it's ok to reinstall this package?

The system is running FreeBSD 2.1 and installed from the walnut creek CDROM.

Thanks for any help,
Jon