Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:33:10 -0700 From: Andriy Babiy <ABabiy@shaw.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> Subject: Re: Problem with portupgrade Message-ID: <200704062333.11196.ABabiy@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070406205027.E6A1B16A40B@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070406205027.E6A1B16A40B@hub.freebsd.org>
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On April 6, 2007, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote:
> >> deimos# portupgrade -PR libmpeg2
> >> [Updating the portsdb >format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 16851
> >> port entries found
> >> {lines cut} ..... done]
> >> [missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!
> >> database file error
> >>
> >> {following some ruby errors regarding the fact that the db can't be
> >> read?!}
> >
> > Try removing (or moving so you have a backup) your
> > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db file, then running pkgdb -u to update/create it.
> >
> > Josh
>
> I did that, it recreated the file w/o errors, but i get the same error
> message.
Have you read the note of 20070205 in /usr/src/UPDATING? It looks you're
running the old version. Check the details in the note, remove portupgrade
and install it from the new location.
Andriy
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