portupgrade command line option -f problem

[David Southwell]

> 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.

Tried that but no good - it still seems to goof up. I recall it used to work 
many versions ago but it may not have been picked up on a regression test.

David


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