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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:10:36 +0000
From:      "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade broken
Message-ID:  <d873d5be0909171210n39770fby14c3dd1aebd2e53d@mail.gmail.com>

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Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>Jerry wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:18:39 +0200
>> "DA Forsyth" <d.forsyth at ru.ac.za> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I saw someone ask about this in Google Groups on the 14th but he has
>>> not got an answer yet, so I am not the only one.
>>>
>>> How do I fix this?
>>
>> You could try the following;
>>
>> 1) Update your ports tree.
>
>including updating INDEX-7 or is that taken as read?
>
>#make fetchindex
>if done at the same time as updating the ports tree
>#make index
>any other time but it takes a long time
>

Or just add the "F" flag to the portsdb call in step "4:".

b.


>Chris
>> 2) Remove: /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
>> 3) Run: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -Ffuv
>> 4: Run: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -fUu
>> 4) Run: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL=



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