> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100 > > David Southwell <da...@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.
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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
