From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 00:06:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5188416A430 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 00:06:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EADA43D69 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 00:06:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.50]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IYV00FJ8C9UU200@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 May 2006 18:05:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IYV00JMTC9URIG0@pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 May 2006 18:05:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0IYV005A7C9QXU10@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 May 2006 18:05:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 5931 invoked from network); Sat, 06 May 2006 21:37:45 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sat, 06 May 2006 21:37:45 +0000 Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 14:37:45 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: Arno Schleich Message-id: <445D1729.8050002@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 00:06:46 -0000 Arno Schleich wrote: > portugrade -a > > results in a repetitive rebuild of the package database whenever the > database is accessed. > > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate > file type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the > pkgdb 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