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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
CC: Arno Schleich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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