Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 02:18:59 +0000 From: "Arno Schleich" <aschleichmd@hotmail.com> To: beech@mangohealth.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade Message-ID: <BAY112-F353174142FF6A457E6D095B4AB0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <200605061346.06072.beech@mangohealth.org>
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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 > > > >-- > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org >/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth >\ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 >/ \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > ><< attach3 >> _________________________________________________________________ Nur die MSN Suche sorgt bei einer Web-Recherche für optimale Ergebnisse. http://search.msn.at/
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