Portupgrade -af question

[Freddie Cash]

>>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:26:49AM -0700, Zoltan Frombach wrote:
>> Yes. Wouldn't it be a nice feature for "portupgrade -P" to install
>> the port instead of the package if any non-defaults were defined in
>> pkgtools.conf?

>> (I guess now's the time for me to learn some ruby)

> If you really want to add this to portupgrade, it should be optional,
> though. Because someone might have a broken compiler or something and
> just wants to install a binary package quickly. In that case it
> should be possible to force a binary package installation regardless
> of what's inside the pkgtools.conf file. Don't you agree?

This is already in portupgrade.  :)

"portupgrade -PP" will force it to install a package only.  If there
is no package availble, then nothing gets installed.

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