portupgrade

[Colin Percival]

Arno Schleich wrote:
> 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)

You probably recently upgraded from FreeBSD 5.x to FreeBSD 6.x:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-04-14-portupgrade-errors.html

Colin Percival