First port installation fails

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> You can run `sudo port -f install p5-pathtools` and then try  
>> installing firefox-x11 again and it should work.
>
> So that this doesn't force a rebuild of perl5.8 as well, you should  
> recommend
>
> sudo port -nf install p5-pathtools
>
> instead.

That's not correct.

Running sudo port -f install p5-pathtools will not force a rebuild of  
an already installed perl5.8 port (I just tested it to verify).

-n is only valid for the upgrade target, anyway (and is documented as  
such in the manpage).

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