portupgrade

[Beech Rintoul]

On Saturday 06 May 2006 13:28, Arno Schleich wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have observed the following behavior in portupgrade:
>
> The operation
>
> portugrade -a
>
> results in a repetitive rebuild of the package database whenever the
> database is accessed.
>
> [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 ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435)
> ...........................................................................
>............................................................................
>............................................................................
>............................................................................
>............................................................................
>........................................................ done]
> --->  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 ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435)
> ...........................................................................
>............................................................................
>............................................................................
>............................................................................
>............................................................................
>........................................................ 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 ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435)
> ...........................................................................
>...........................
>
>
> Is this a bug or a feature ?
>
> What can be done to suppress this behavior of portupgrade -a ?
>
> Thanks, Arno

Sounds like your pkgdb is corrupt. Try doing "pkgdb -fu" (without the quotes), 
if that doesn't work rename or rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and run the command 
again to build a new pkgdb.

Beech



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