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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: Struggling mightily with port updates
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> I upgraded two systems to 8.4 and ran portmaster -ad to update all ports.
>
> Most of it worked fine, but I'm in docbook hell now. I also don't understand 
> this:
>
> ===>>> All >> (6)
>
> ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
> 	Upgrade en-freebsd-doc-43251,1 to en-freebsd-doc-44807,1
> 	Re-install ruby-1.9.3.484_2,1
> 	Install textproc/docbook-xml
> 	Install www/mod_authnz_external22
> 	Re-install docproj-2.0_2
> 	Install print/ghostscript9
>
> ===>>> Proceed? y/n [y]
>
> I just upgraded ruby:
>
> ===>>> The following actions were performed:
> 	Re-installation of ruby-1.9.3.484_2,1
> 	Re-installation of ruby19-bdb-0.6.6_3
> 	Re-installation of ruby19-date2-4.0.19
>
> So why does portmaster want to reinstall it?

/usr/ports/UPDATING shows manual steps that must be taken.  The 20140219 
entry talks about the DocBook ports.