portupgrade

[Arno Schleich]

Dear all,

I have observed the following behavior in portupgrade:

The operation

portugrade -a

results in a repetitive rebuild of the package database whenever the 
database is accessed.

[Updating the pkgdb <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate file 
type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb 
<format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435) 
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 
done]
--->  Backing up the old version
[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 ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435) 
................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 
done]
--->  Uninstalling the old version
[Updating the pkgdb <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate file 
type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb 
<format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435) 
......................................................................................................


Is this a bug or a feature ?

What can be done to suppress this behavior of portupgrade -a ?

Thanks, Arno

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