portupgrade fails to upgrade the package because the older version is installed

[Sergey Matveychuk]

Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 14/07/2008 14:57 Sergey Matveychuk said the following:
>> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> on 14/07/2008 14:32 Sergey Matveychuk said the following:
>>>> This command works:
>>>> # portupgrade -o www/neon28 neon26
>>>>
>>>> I'll fix UPDATING entry.
>>> Is the reverse operation supposed to work?
>>>
>>> $ pkg_glob neon\*
>>> neon28-0.28.2_1
>>> $ portupgrade -o www/neon26 neon28
>>> $ portupgrade -o www/neon26 www/neon28
>>> $
>>>
>>>
>> Yes.
>>
> 
> It didn't work for me (nothing was done as shown above).
> Could you please check if it works for you (if you can) ?
> 

version 2.8 is alway > than 2.6. So you must use -f option here:

portupgrade -fo www/neon26 neon28

portupgrade will no update ports on older version if you did not force it.

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