Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portupgrade command line option -f problem Message-ID: <201010131014.31158.david@vizion2000.net>
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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
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