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On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> You're not doing it right, then :-)
>
> Use portupgrade with the -PP switch to force the use of packages.
>

What if there isn't a package for a given port? I wasn't aware there 
were packages (though I suppose for an ancient release like 4.9 there 
might be).


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