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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:46:54 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 207105] The manual page for pkg(8) should document more uses of flag -f (e.g. for force)
Message-ID:  <bug-207105-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 207105
           Summary: The manual page for pkg(8) should document more uses
                    of flag -f (e.g. for force)
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@gmail.com

At https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dpkg&sektion=3D8 for FreeBSD =
10.2 the
only documented use of -f is as a flag for the bootstrap command.=20

Please add to the man page other known uses of=20

-f

I'm aware of at least the following:=20

pkg update -f

pkg upgrade -f

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A question about upgrade -f was asked in irc://chat.freenode.net/#pcbsd a
couple of days ago.

Other discussions that question or exemplify uses of -f include
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-broken-after-upgrading-from-9-3-to-1=
0-1.51659/#post-289663
and https://forums.pcbsd.org/thread-19980.html

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