Problem with portupgrade

[Sergey Matveychuk]

Michael Proto wrote:
> 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).
> 

If it does not help, you should update portupgrade to the last version
and rebuild the database again.

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