pkgdb rebuild

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Wed Oct 27 07:35:20 PDT 2004


portupgrade -fav is continually rebuilding the pkgdb

--->  Uninstallation of openldap-server-2.2.14 started at: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:51:04 -0700
--->  Fixing up dependencies before creating a package
--->  Backing up the old version
[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 439 packages found (-0 +439) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... done]
--->  Uninstalling the old version
[Updating the pkgdb <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate file type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... - 439 packages found (-0 +439) ......................................................................................................

this is *very* time consuming.  i have done

   portsdb -Uu
   pkgdb -Uu
   pkgdb -Ff

to no avail

please send clue!

randy



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