Re: Portupgrade issue

From: Brooks Davis (brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 08/26/04

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    Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:53:52 -0700
    To: Robert Munn <munn@pcp243550pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net>
    
    
    

    On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:41:39PM -0400, Robert Munn wrote:
    > In doing a portupgrade I occasionally get the message
    >
    > ---> Skipping 'databases/p5-DBI-137' because it is held by user
    > (specify -f to force)
    >
    > adding -r to the command generally fails. How can I 'unhold' a port successfully?

    Ports are held by adding entries to the HOLD_PKGS array in
    /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. You probably have one you need to remove.

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