Portupgrade has serious problems

[David Southwell]

On Monday 08 September 2008 04:59:06 Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> David Southwell wrote:
> > --->  Skipping 'x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2' (ruby18-gtk2-0.16.0.20080706)
> > because a requisite package 'ruby18-gdk_pixbuf2-0.16.0.20080706' ()
> > failed (specify -k to force)
>
> Empty brackets display a problem with a database. But for some reason it
> can't be detected by bdb engine.
>
> > --->  Skipping 'devel/ruby-libglade2' (ruby18-libglade2-0.16.0.20080706)
> > because a requisite package 'ruby18-gtk2-0.16.0.20080706'
> > (x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2) failed (specify -k to force)
> >
> > All these problems have identical symptoms and are fixed by rerunning
> > portupgrade!!
> > It looks as though portupgrade is failing to reexamine the database after
> > each upgrade OR is searching for a dependency which is limited to the
> > previous version!
>
> Could you remove both /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and /usr/ports/INDEX*.db and
> rerun portupgrade? They will be recreated automatically.

OK done that I will report back when I have done a few  cvsups and portupgrade 
runs and see whether that fixes the problem. Thanks for keeping on to this.

Lets hope this works

David