pkgdb format

Loren M. Lang lorenl at alzatex.com
Fri Dec 9 23:08:24 PST 2005


On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:55:10PM +0000, eoghan wrote:
> Hello
> Ive recently upgraded to 6.0 and I decided to upgrade my ports... So  
> I ran a:
> portupgrade -af
> Its running fine, but each time its upgrade a port I get:
> [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)

Just remove /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and it should rebuild the database
using the new format.

> 
> Just wondering if its to do with my upgrade to 6.0 (from 5.4)
> Thanks
> Eoghan
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