portupgrade error - `deorigin': cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)

Joe Talbott josepht at cstone.net
Fri Jun 25 13:28:00 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:10:44PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2004 12:25 pm, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Ever since a recent cvsup of ports and a portsdb -Uu, portupgrade
> > has been giving the following error:
> >
> 
> Someone on ports said to run portsdb  -fu to fix this one. The cooment 
> was 
> > Probably a ruby bug. Rebuilding {pkg|ports}.db from scratch will do, I 
> think.
> 
> But I thought that was a pkgdb -fu.
> 

I fixed this by updating my pkgtools.conf file. Nothing else worked
for me.  Though this might have worked in addition to the usuals (i.e.
rm -f /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
rm -f /usr/ports/INDEX*
portsdb -Uu
pkgdb -fu

Was: 1.19 updated to 1.32

Joe


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