Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:26:22 +0000 From: Andy Smith <andy@freebsdwiki.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade error - `deorigin': cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) Message-ID: <20040625232622.GO27620@caffreys.strugglers.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:
> >
> > ---> Session started at: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:58:25 +0000
> > ---> Session ended at: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:58:28 +0000 (consumed
> > 00:00:03) /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:323:in
> > `deorigin': cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from
[...]
> 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.
Hmm. Before I read your email I deleted /usr/ports, did a fresh
cvsup and then did portsdb -Uu and now portupgrade seems to work
again. Odd.
Thanks everyone for the replies anyway.
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