portupgrade command line option -f problem

[RW]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:30 +0100
David Southwell <david at 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.