Strange problem with portmaster

[Paul Schmehl]

I recently upgraded all the ports on a server, so I decided to run 
portmaster -r perl to make sure all the perl ports were up to date.

I used portmaster -rfd perl and got the following error:
/var/db/pkg/fd does not exist

I googled a bit and found nothing.  Then I thought, that's strange, fd was 
the second and third commands.  So I ran:
portmaster -r -f -d perl and I got /var/db/pkg/f does not exist

Then I tried portmaster -rf -d perl and got /var/db/pkg/d does not exist

I finally just ran portmaster -r perl, which worked of course.

Apparently the -r switch doesn't want to see anything after except the port 
that's being recursively built?  I didn't try portmaster -fd -r perl. 
Maybe I should have?

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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/infosecurity/