portupgrade failure

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 13 18:06:27 UTC 2008


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:04:02PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Patrick Lamaizière
> <patfbsd at davenulle.org> wrote:
> > Portupgrade is often confused with his database on upgrade.
> > Delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and retry.
> >
> > May be you have to delete /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db too.
> 
> Hmm. This does not inspire confidence in the tool.

So don't use it?  :-)  There are alternatives like portmaster.

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