portsdb -F: portsdb: MOVED file format error

[Kiiski]

I'm running 7.1-RELEASE-p1 i386.
After updating my portstree, database update gives errors:

# portsdb -F
portsdb: MOVED file format error

and portversion gives errors:

usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:119:in `fill': MOVED file format error (PortsDB::MOVEDError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:113:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:113:in `fill'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:112:in `open'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:112:in `fill'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:107:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:182:in `new'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:182:in `setup'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:256:in `init_pkgtools_global'
from /usr/local/sbin/portversion:190:in `main'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:785:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/sbin/portversion:82:in `new'
from /usr/local/sbin/portversion:82:in `main'
from /usr/local/sbin/portversion:382

and portupgrade gives errors:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:119:in `fill': MOVED file format error (PortsDB::MOVEDError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:113:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:113:in `fill'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:112:in `open'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:112:in `fill'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:107:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:182:in `new'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:182:in `setup'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:256:in `init_pkgtools_global'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:529:in `main'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:785:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:229:in `new'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:229:in `main'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2208

Does somebody know what this is all about?

 

[DutchDaemon]

I think I saw something like that a long time ago. IIRC, there was an empty line at the end of /usr/ports/MOVED. Another time, there was a missing field in one of the lines (fields are delimited by the "|" character; there must be three "|"'s in each entry). Updating your ports tree might help (these little errors are usually corrected pretty quickly).

 

[Kiiski]

Yes, updating ports tree corrected the problem.
/usr/ports/MOVED seemed to be one of the updated files.

 

[Argentum]

I think I saw something like that a long time ago. IIRC, there was an empty line at the end of /usr/ports/MOVED. Another time, there was a missing field in one of the lines (fields are delimited by the "|" character; there must be three "|"'s in each entry). Updating your ports tree might help (these little errors are usually corrected pretty quickly).

Sometimes these old posts are still relevant. I had the same problem just yesterday and was scratching my head. Now it is OK after some time left and fresh ports tree upgrade.

portversion ended like this - /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.7/pkgtools/portsdb.rb:118:in `block (2 levels) in fill': MOVED file format error (PortsDB::MOVEDError).