From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 09:14:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0FF106566B for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (dns1.vizion2000.net [62.49.197.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3814A8FC08 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 47E4034D44F; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:31 +0100 (BST) From: David Southwell Organization: Voice & Vision To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.2-RELEASE-p3; KDE/4.5.2; amd64; ; ) X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: portupgrade command line option -f problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:14:45 -0000 Hi man portupgrade advises: -f --force Force the upgrade of a package even if it is to be a downgrade or just a reinstall of the same ver- sion, or the port is held by user using the HOLD_PKGS variable in pkgtools.conf. In practice on freebsd 7.2 p3 amd generic I find that uptodate packages are excluded! [Exclude up-to-date packages ............ [done] Whereas I wish to have all identified packages rebuilt even if they are shown as being up to date. This may be necessary if, for example, a change has been made to make.conf which affects ports might have an up to date version but were compiled prior to the changes in make.conf. Unless I am mistaken it seems as though the -f option not produce results I expect after reading the man page. David Photographic Artist Permanent Installations & Design Creative Imagery and Advanced Digital Techniques High Dynamic Range Photography & Official Portraiture Combined darkroom & digital creations & Systems Adminstrator for the vizion2000.net network