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Thanks, that improved the behavior. What I don't understand though is why 
upgrading individual ports e. g. "portupgrade xyz" never resulted in that 
problem ...

>From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org>
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>CC: Arno Schleich <aschleichmd@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: portupgrade
>Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 13:45:49 -0800
>
>On Saturday 06 May 2006 13:28, Arno Schleich wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have observed the following behavior in portupgrade:
> >
> > The operation
> >
> > portugrade -a
> >
> > results in a repetitive rebuild of the package database whenever the
> > database is accessed.
> >
> > [Updating the pkgdb <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate 
>file
> > type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the 
>pkgdb
> > <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435)
> > 
>...........................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >........................................................ done]
> > --->  Backing up the old version
> > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... Failed
> > `Inappropriate file type or format'; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the 
>pkgdb
> > <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435)
> > 
>...........................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >............................................................................
> >........................................................ done]
> > --->  Uninstalling the old version
> > [Updating the pkgdb <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... Inappropriate 
>file
> > type or format - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the 
>pkgdb
> > <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435)
> > 
>...........................................................................
> >...........................
> >
> >
> > Is this a bug or a feature ?
> >
> > What can be done to suppress this behavior of portupgrade -a ?
> >
> > Thanks, Arno
>
>Sounds like your pkgdb is corrupt. Try doing "pkgdb -fu" (without the 
>quotes),
>if that doesn't work rename or rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and run the command
>again to build a new pkgdb.
>
>Beech
>
>
>
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