pkgdb rebuild

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:55:35AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> portupgrade -fav is continually rebuilding the pkgdb
> 
> --->  Uninstallation of openldap-server-2.2.14 started at: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:51:04 -0700
> --->  Fixing up dependencies before creating a package
> --->  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 ... - 439 packages found (-0 +439) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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 ... - 439 packages found (-0 +439) ......................................................................................................
> 
> this is *very* time consuming.  i have done
> 
>    portsdb -Uu
>    pkgdb -Uu
>    pkgdb -Ff
> 
> to no avail
> 
> please send clue!

You don't say what OS version you're using.  If it isn't a recent
4.10-STABLE, 5.3-STABLE 6-CURRENT or one of the 5.3-BETA/RCn then you
may be hitting the same bug in the bdb1_btree support in the base
system that caused ruby to dump core while running portsdb.

This is the fix that was applied to the listed branches:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/db/btree/bt_split.c.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7

A workaround is to set the following in the environment:

    # setenv PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
    # setenv PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash

which will cause portupgrade to use the hash format rather than the
btree format.  Other, similar, fixes can be applied -- check the
archives for possibilities.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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