Portupgrade port error

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Jos Chrispijn <jos at webrz.net> wrote:

>    Dear group,
>    Just tried to upgrade to portupgrade with portmaster but something goes
>    wrong here:
>    ===>  Building package for portupgrade-2.4.11.2,2
>    Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/portupgrade-2.4.11.2,2.tbz
>    Registering depends: ruby19-bdb-0.6.6_1 db41-4.1.25_4 ruby-1.9.3.448,1
>    libexecinfo-1.1_3 libffi-3.0.13 libyaml-0.1.4_2.
>    Registering conflicts: portupgrade-devel-*.
>    Creating bzip'd tar ball in
>    '/usr/ports/packages/All/portupgrade-2.4.11.2,2.tbz'
>    tar: libdata/ldconfig/portupgrade: Cannot stat: No such file or
>    directory
>    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>    pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>    *** [do-package] Error code 1
>    Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade.
>    *** [install] Error code 1
>    Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade.
>    ===>>> A backup package for portupgrade-2.4.11.1,2 should
>           be located in /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup
>    ===>>> Installation of portupgrade-2.4.11.2,2 (ports-mgmt/portupgrade)
>    failed
>    ===>>> Aborting update
>    ===>>> Update for ports-mgmt/portupgrade failed
>    ===>>> Aborting update
>    ===>>> Killing background jobs
>    Terminated
>    ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command
>    line:
>           portmaster <flags> ports-mgmt/portupgrade
>    ===>>> Exiting
>    Can you tell me how I can solve this issue?
>    Thanks in advance,
>    Jos Chrispijn
>

A little more detail might help. Exactly what command did you enter? What
options? What is in your portmasterrc file (if you have one)? Are you
running pkg or pkgng? Does /usr/local/libdata/ldconfig/portupgrade exist?
(It should have just been ceated?)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com