I did the following: portmaster -Rafd Died on devel/autoconf-archive due to arg list being too long (not the issue I am reporting but still an issue) So in order to correctly get autoconf-archive correctly installed I did: portmaster -Rd devel/autoconf-archive Completes as expected. Now I rerun portmaster -Rafd and none of the 200+ ports already built from the first are marked as already done. So I then do: ls /var/db/pkg/*/PM_UPGRADE_DONE_FLAG ls: No match. Therefore I have to assume that portmaster -Rd devel/autoconf-archive rm'ed all the previous PM_UPGRADE_DONE_FLAG's leading portmaster to incorrectly assume no ports had been built in the previous run of portmaster -Rafd System info: portmaster --version ===>>> Version 3.19_25 uname -a FreeBSD neomarx 12.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p4 r360200 GENERIC amd64