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From: Robert Munn <munn@pcp243550pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net>
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Subject: Portupgrade issue
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In doing a portupgrade I occasionally get the message

--->  Skipping 'databases/p5-DBI-137' because it is held by user
(specify -f to force)

adding -r to the command generally fails.  How can I 'unhold' a port successfully?