From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 11:40:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3C816A4DA for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:40:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd@lordcow.org) Received: from smtp1.uct.ac.za (smtp1.uct.ac.za [137.158.128.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60D543D69 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:40:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@lordcow.org) Received: from [137.158.128.125] (helo=anubis.uct.ac.za) by smtp1.uct.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1G0zYG-0000Za-49 for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:40:16 +0200 Received: from lhc.phy.uct.ac.za ([137.158.37.93]) by anubis.uct.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1G0zYD-000IE2-Tn for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:40:13 +0200 Received: from lordcow by lhc.phy.uct.ac.za with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0zYF-0008T8-9k for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:40:15 +0200 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:40:15 +0200 From: gareth To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060713114015.GA32484@lordcow.org> References: <200606301851.39983.daeg@houston.rr.com> <200606302042.50537.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <20060703090141.GA4997@lordcow.org> <200607030556.40861.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <20060713094327.GA29332@lordcow.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060713094327.GA29332@lordcow.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Cc: Subject: Re: portupgrade portupgrade leaves an error.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:40:21 -0000 On Thu 2006-07-13 (11:43), gareth wrote: > hi, i tried all've that, but when i get to 'pkgdb -F', this's what it says: > > # pkgdb -F > ---> Checking the package registry database > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!] > # ok, don't mind me, i was deleting /usr/ports/INDEX*, but when i delete pkgdb.db as well, it works (i think, still chugging away ..)