From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 12:24:42 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 5A0061065674 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:24:42 +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 976D38FC1D for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:24:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9365B34D44F; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:24:26 +0100 (BST) From: David Southwell Organization: Voice & Vision To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:24:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.2-RELEASE-p3; KDE/4.5.2; amd64; ; ) References: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net> <20101013121253.30b9e0f7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20101013121253.30b9e0f7@gumby.homeunix.com> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201010131324.26444.david@vizion2000.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: 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 12:24:42 -0000 > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100 > > David Southwell 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. Tried that but no good - it still seems to goof up. I recall it used to work many versions ago but it may not have been picked up on a regression test. 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