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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=20
> was=20
> > Probably a ruby bug. Rebuilding {pkg|ports}.db from scratch will do, I=
=20
> think.
>=20
> 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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