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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:31:49 -0500
From:      "Kaveh Ahmadian" <kaveh@viableweb.com>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkgdb core dumb
Message-ID:  <002601c64ec1$334348a0$0201a8c0@KA2NB>
In-Reply-To: <20060323200357.7959316A4EA@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:53, John Nielsen wrote:
>I've seen this a number of times; it usually means a corrupt pkgdb. Rebuild

>it from scratch (pkgdb -fu).  If that fails or if you still get the error 
>afterwards, rebuild and reinstall portupgrade and ruby (without using 
>portupgrade in the process).  Run 'pkgdb -fu' again after the reinstall.
>
>JN

Thanks. I did a 'make deinstall' in the /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
directory, then ran 'make install clean'. After I did a 'pkgdb -fu', I was
all set.




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