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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:26:30 +0800
From:      "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com>
To:        "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cannot upgrade
Message-ID:  <a25afc300607031026s63120bb5q37fab1fc876f4801@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a25afc300607031003q32cb24f1ge09888b71ec17319@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060702183123.GC12262@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20060702183358.GD12262@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <80f4f2b20607021423h3de5f063raf7ea0f2843c3399@mail.gmail.com> <200607021450.10112.kstewart@owt.com> <a25afc300607031003q32cb24f1ge09888b71ec17319@mail.gmail.com>

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On 7/4/06, jan gestre <freebsd.ph@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/3/06, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:23, Jim Stapleton wrote:
> > > I would guess that means the file was corrupted somehow, though I
> > > don't know how.
> > >
> > > At any rate, I don't know how to fix that, and not loose the stored
> > > information.
> >
> > You "pkgdb -fu" and it recreates the database. You will also probably
> > find that you need to recreate your INDEX[-*].db. After that,
> > everything works just fine. All I did is run pkg-version and it rebuilt
> > the INDEX.db.
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> i 'm having this same problem :(  tried everything that is mentioned in
> here but to no avail. i even tried make deinstall and make reinstall and it
> didnt work, pkg_delete wont work coz it cant find portupgrade. pls help
>
> i fixed the problem, i saw a solution in one of the threads and it is now
ok. here is what i did:

# cd /var/db/pkg/
# mv pkgdb.db pkgdb.db.orig
# pkgdb -fu

everything went back to normal, portupgrade port was the problem as stated
by the maintainer.



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