Problem with portupgrade

[Michael Proto]

Phillip Ledger wrote:
> i have been trying to get portupgrade working, however everything i try
> to run it im getting an error with the portsdb. now i have tryed to
> rebuild it as requested initaly by portupgrade but im still getting an
> error
> 
> portupgrade -aRr
> [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in
> /var/tmp ... - 16413 port entries found
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000....
> ..... done]
> missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': database
> file error (PortsDB::DBError)
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in
> `all_depends_list'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!'
>        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize'
>        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new'
>        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main'
>        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084
> 
> 
> any idea whats causeing the issue or how to fix it?


Try removing /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db and running "portsdb -u", which
should rebuild it from your existing /usr/ports/INDEX-6 file.

(if you're using FreeBSD 5 it would be INDEX-5 above).


-Proto