Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:12:53 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade command line option -f problem Message-ID: <20101013121253.30b9e0f7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net> References: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100 David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> wrote: > 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] I think it's misleading, in my experience it does then go on to reinstall the ports. If nothing gets rebuilt try specifying the full package name or the origin.
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