port upgrades

[Phil Schulz]

Chris wrote:
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> 
> So I use the -f flag to force, and get several errors like:
>

[...]

 From the portupgrade man page:

-r
--recursive            Act on all those packages depending on the given
                        packages as well.

So I think you might want to run

#portupgrade -rf bsdpan-Mail-SpamAssassin

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> 
> I can successfully "install Mail::SpamAssassin" using cpan, but it never seems to show up as the latest version (always seems to need upgrading when looking at pkg_version).
> 
> Are there are two different ways to install (for example) SpamAssassin (and other perl related ports)?
> 
> I can use cpan OR the pkg_add / portupgrade commands but not both?
> 

Sorry, I don't know.

Phil.