From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 9 15:41:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BE416A416 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryptixd@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E11743D53 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:41:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cryptixd@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so575006uge for ; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:41:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=swo3VPu++qiZlSLMwxOx6K+vd9U+JfSak4+6Ho4mkquCPIxzhXzExPk1L9udMXVXq0rWmA6m6a5MPtunu4k6Wz/vAfD1i7SjDBwrGyTKtZhFTNDbFBqGM2t19eJ8SqCp6/bK1HvRJIQoewDnJhWJzCWiGpNHTT4OIWm+CxwnWH8= Received: by 10.78.203.15 with SMTP id a15mr5355707hug; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.179.10 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 08:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <880eb6180610090841j423789a0obdc62ecec8bf910f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:41:13 +0200 From: "Wernher Eksteen" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: portupgrade -varR X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:41:16 -0000 Hi all, New to your list, so please forgive if I'm not doing this right, in which case please show me the way :) I have this issue when running portupgrade; /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -varR ---> Session started at: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:12:24 +0100 [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb 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 ---> Session ended at: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:12:26 +0100 (consumed 00:00:01) I'm pretty new to using Portupgrade, and need some help with this. No idea what this means or how to fix it. Any pointers would be much appreciated! Thanks, Wernher