Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:26:50 -0400 From: Joe Talbott <josepht@cstone.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: portupgrade error - `deorigin': cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) Message-ID: <20040625202650.GA41813@nickel.oss.ntelos.net> In-Reply-To: <200406251310.44600.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20040625192512.GK27620@caffreys.strugglers.net> <200406251310.44600.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:10:44PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2004 12:25 pm, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Ever since a recent cvsup of ports and a portsdb -Uu, portupgrade
> > has been giving the following error:
> >
>
> Someone on ports said to run portsdb -fu to fix this one. The cooment
> was
> > Probably a ruby bug. Rebuilding {pkg|ports}.db from scratch will do, I
> think.
>
> But I thought that was a pkgdb -fu.
>
I fixed this by updating my pkgtools.conf file. Nothing else worked
for me. Though this might have worked in addition to the usuals (i.e.
rm -f /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
rm -f /usr/ports/INDEX*
portsdb -Uu
pkgdb -fu
Was: 1.19 updated to 1.32
Joe
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