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Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please
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On Saturday 03 May 2003 09:39 am, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam" <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 3:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 17:45, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >> I'm not sure what I've done but I'll describe my symptoms.  I'm
> >> running 4.8-RELEASE with a Gnome2 desktop and the dependent ports.
> >>  The only additional ports I've installed are cvsup-without-gui,
> >> portupgrade,
>
> mplayer,
>
> >> evolution, galeon, and their dependencies.  Everything was
> >> installed by portupgrade except portupgrade itself.  Everything
> >> was running along fine until I decided to use portupgrade to
> >> upgrade my installed ports.
> >
> > Have you tried running 'pkgdb -F' as root? Does that help fix the
> > database corruption?
>
> Yes I have.  I do all my portupgrade tasks as root.  However the
> corruption remains.
>

I remember a discussion about massive corruption. You might do an 
archive search on "pkgdb -fu". It will force update or create the 
database.

When you ran portupgrade to do your upgrade, what options did you use.

Kent

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