portupgrade-2.2.2_1,2 corrupts portsdb

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Wed Jan 31 21:07:46 UTC 2007


* Bartosz Fabianowski (freebsd at chillt.de) wrote:
> As part of the daily portupgrade run on my 6-STABLE box, I upgraded 
> sysutils/portupgrade to version 2.2.2_1,2 yesterday. Today, when I tried 
> running this version, I got the following error message:
> 
> %portupgrade -ai
> --->  Session started at: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:44:44 +0000
> [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in 
> /usr/ports ... - 15487 port entries found 
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.... 
> ..... done]
> missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!

Same here. Though I don't think portupgrade's upgrade is the cause,
as I've used portupgrade-2.2.2_1,2 for some time already without
problems. So more likely the cause is new category in ports
(ports-mgmt) or new virtual category gnustep.

-- 
Best regards,
  Dmitry Marakasov               mailto:amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru



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