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Date:      Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:01:10 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <questions@Freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade error [cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)]
Message-ID:  <20050709130109.GA76067@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <FFB32FE9-17C3-4217-A0E4-694016D5903C@mac.com>
References:  <FFB32FE9-17C3-4217-A0E4-694016D5903C@mac.com>

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:48:40PM -0700, paul beard wrote:
> I am having some problems with portupgrade. The error message is "/=20
> usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:322:in `deorigin': " (more =20
> below). I see there have been isolated occurrences of this in June of =20
> 2003 and 2004, curiously, but I haven't found the solutions there to =20
> work. Removing the ports tree and re-fetching it, removing and =20
> rebuilding pkgdb, removing and reinstalling portupgrade/ruby, etc, =20
> even building a new kernel and world, seem ineffective.

Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING?

Kris

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