pkg add: howto force the installation of a binary package?

[Lars Engels]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 05:24:12PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
> Since this ever-fragile FreeBSD port editors/libreoffice fails on 11-CURRENT and
> 9.2-STABLE to compile (it fails on fours systems running the named flavours of OS), I try
> to install the binary package via pkg add. But, very funny, I receive always the error:
> 
> pkg: Missing dependency matching Origin: 'net/openldap24-client' Version: '2.4.39'
> 
> The port in question is already installed, but I have 
> 
> pkg info -ox openldap
> openldap-sasl-client-2.4.39 net/openldap24-sasl-client
> 
> This is fun. I tried to find the magical "force" knob in pkg-add to override such
> (insane) restrictions, but I didn't find any.
> 
> Is there a regular way to install the port by force without checking for the dependency?
> It seems that pkgng allows only installations of ports that do not dare to have different
> options than the standard defined in the binary package expectations?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
> 
> Oliver
> 
> P.S. Please CC me.

From pkg-add(8)

     -M  Force the installation of the package with missing dependencies.

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