portupgrade, pkgdb hang

[Tony Shadwick]

You're not doing anything wrong.  The pkgdb apparently has some major 
differences that is taking a large amount of time to reconcile.  I had one 
machine that was way behind and took several hours to catch up.

Run pkgdb and go to bed. :)  Next day everything should be fine.

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Robert S wrote:

> I am a newcomer to freebsd and am still trying to get to grips with
> package management.
>
> When I try to do a binary upgrade of a package it hangs.  Recently I
> tried to upgrade sylpheed-claws and nothing happened for 2 hours.  I
> got the following message:
>
> # portupgrade -v -P sylpheed-claws
> --->  Session started at: Sat, 28 May 2005 08:53:35 +0000
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 260
> packages found (-1 +7) (...)
>
> I get similar behaviour when I try to do pkgdb -F
>
> I am running through a proxy and have
> PACKAGESITE="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/"
> in my /etc/profile
>
> I assume that I'm doing something wrong.  Can somebody help?
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