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Subject: updating pkgdb results invalid argument
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FreeBSD-4.9

any clues why this is happening?  the update of the package DB ends off with
invalid argument.

--- snip ----

# pkgdb -Fu
--->  Updating the pkgdb
Invalid argument


---- snip ---


cheers,

Noah