Ports management in 4.11

[Charles Sprickman]

Hi all,

I understand 4.11 is dead, but I've still got about 20 odd boxes to take 
care of for the next few months until we can figure out what breaks in 6.x 
for us.

I saw that it's recommended to use the "RELEASE_4_EOL" tag when updating 
the ports tree to make sure that we have a stable ports tree that should 
(mostly) build on 4.11.  No problems there, we can deal with freezing 
everything at the date that tag came out...

However, we do make extensive use of portupgrade and the version tagged 
there is known to be buggy.  So I'd like to keep my current version of 
portupgrade (2.2.6_2.2) installed.  Should this work?

Running "pkgdb -F" to fix up deps gives me this:

/usr/ports/INDEX:1765:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.
/usr/ports/INDEX:1766:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.
/usr/ports/INDEX:1767:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.
/usr/ports/INDEX:1768:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.

I'm guessing something here is not in sync or my cvsup "downgrade" to the 
EOL tag perhaps didn't remove everything.

portupgrade also still thinks that tools that came from 
/usr/port/ports-mgmt still live in that directory rather than in 
/usr/ports/sysutils (as they do with the EOL tag):

toolbox[/usr/ports]# pkgdb -F
cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
--->  Checking the package registry database
Stale origin: 'ports-mgmt/pkg_install': perhaps moved or obsoleted.
[/usr/ports/INDEX.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument] 
[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 15969 port 
entries found /usr/ports/INDEX.db: unexpected file type or format -- 
Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb! (/usr/ports/INDEX.db)]
database file error
[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 15969 port 
entries found 
.........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000......... 
..... done]
Skip this for now? [yes]

What do I need to get in order to have this all work relatively smoothly 
until we can get everything upgraded to 6.x?

Sadly(?), most of the port management tools have "just worked" for me, so 
I've never really gone looking under the hood that much.

Any advice is appreciated...

Thanks,

Charles