portupgrade/pkgdb problem

[Rob]

Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
> Hi,
> 	
> 	As described in
> http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200402261920.i1QJK9DA070598@repoman.freebsd.org,
> I've reinstalled portupgrade-\*.
> 
> And now when I try to run portupgrade I have such error:
> 	
> novel /usr/local/bin $> portupgrade -sfr lang/ruby16
> --->  [Executing a command as root: sudo /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -u]
> --->  Updating the pkgdb
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 266
> packages found (-41 +135) (...)ruby in malloc(): error: allocation
> failed
> --->  [Executing a command as root: sudo /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -u]
> --->  Updating the pkgdb
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 266
> packages found (-41 +135) (...)ruby in malloc(): error: allocation
> failed
> The pkgdb must be updated.  Please run 'pkgdb -u' as root.
> novel /usr/local/bin $>
> 
> What's wrong? 
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE i386
> portupgrade 1.8.1
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-freebsd5]

I think this is because ruby-1.6 used to install /usr/local/bin/ruby, but by
the recent upgrade this becomes /usr/local/bin/ruby16 and ruby is not there
anymore. Since portupgrade needs ruby, portupgrade gets stuck as soon as
upgrading ruby-1.6 removes the /usr/local/bin/ruby file.

I have removed portupgrade and all related ruby stuff and then reinstalled
portupgrade, which then installs ruby-1.8. All works well then.

Rob.