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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com>
cc: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@oslo.ath.cx>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: portmaster -af fails due to dead port - HELP
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, William Dudley wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> I didn't know pkg worked on ports, I thought it was for packages (i.e.
> pre-packaged
> binaries).  Now I'm on my way.  I think.

Packages are what you get when a port is compiled.  This might help:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pkg.html