FreeBSD 10 upgrade: no ports installed?

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KdeBruin

Having completed the transition of my server to a sysutils/beadm compatible installation I was able to create a new boot environment:

Code: 
# beadm create 10.0-RELEASE
Created successfully
# beadm list
BE           Active Mountpoint  Space Created
current      NR     /            9.4G 2014-02-16 10:38
10.0-RELEASE -      -          288.0K 2014-02-16 13:58
# beadm activate 10.0-RELEASE
Activated successfully

After activation and a reboot I could rename current to the more appropriate 9.2-RELEASE:

Code: 
# beadm rename current 9.2-RELEASE
Password:
Renamed successfully
# beadm list
BE           Active Mountpoint  Space Created
9.2-RELEASE  -      -            7.4M 2014-02-16 10:38
10.0-RELEASE NR     /            9.4G 2014-02-16 13:58

Using the directions from http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/installation.html I was able to do the upgrade but at the point where I should rebuild the installed ports I got zilch. No packages are installed according to both pkg and portmaster:

Code: 
# pkg info
#

I've re-activated the 9.2-RELEASE boot environment and the server is up and running again. Any ideas on how to proceed from here?
 
OK, this is kinda embarrassing...

It seems that the conversion didn't go 100% without problems as the package database is empty on the converted system. Restoring it from my backup did the trick and now I can also rebuild my ports in the FreeBSD 10 boot environment.
 
Hello,

I got the same problem after freebsd-update from 9.2-RELEASE to 10.0-RELEASE. But when I restored the files in /var/db/pkg from /var/backups, I still got no ports installed.

May be my backup is corrupted.
 
FreeBSD 10 uses a new package manager, pkg(8). After installing it, the old package database in /var/db/pkg must be converted with pkg2ng. Until that conversion, no packages will be seen on a system updated from FreeBSD 9.
 
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