Portupgrade

[jan gestre]

On 7/3/06, Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
>
> "E. J. Cerejo" <edu07643 at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
> > I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 release and after upgrading portupgrade using
> portupgrade itself I'm getting this message (message bellow) or similar one
> everytime I run one of the portupgrade commands like pkgdb -u or -F,
> portversion -L = or portupgrade itself.  Tells me that the database needs to
> be rebuild, I run portsdb -uU and I get this same error message (message
> bellow) it rebuilds with portsdb -fuU but still get this same message.
> >
> > Error Message:
> >
> > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument;
> rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument;
> rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument:
> Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!]
> > Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ
> >
> > any clues on how to solve this?
>
> When was the last time you did a cvsup?
>
> Portupgrade was hosed for a few days there, if your ports tree previously
> installed the hosted version, portupgrade won't work.
>
> If this is the case, the solution is:
> 1) cvsup ports
> 2) pkg_delete portupgrade
> 3) cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade && make install clean
>
> Portupgrade will then start working again.
>
> i always do a cvsup before upgrading the ports but i got the same problem,
pkg_delete did not work coz it can't see the portupgrade version that is
installed so i did a make deinstall and make reinstall instead but with the
same result, any idea how will i solve this?

TIA