portupgrade problem

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RedErick

Hello!

During performing of the command portupgrade -arR I have the following output:
Code: 
portupgrade -arR
[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 24388 port entries found 
.........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........
7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000
.........15000.........16000.........17000.........18000.........19000....[B]/usr/ports/INDEX-9:19
438:rrdmerge-0.0_b05d69bfac64: 0.0_b05d69bfac64: Not in due form: '<version>
[_<revision>][,<epoch>]'[/B]......20000.........21000.........22000.........23000.........24000... 
..... done

I tried to solve this by:
rm /var/db/portsnap/tag &&
rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/files &&
rm -rf /usr/ports

And then: portsnap fetch extract. But still no result.

Please, help :)
 
Thank you for recommendations! I will use portupgrade with only the -a key in the future. Unfortunately, a re-update of the ports tree again has no effect. I'm still stuck with this database. But portmaster -a works fine so I think there are no problems for me to switch to this application

Thanks a lot! My problem is solved :)
 
P.S. My last attempt was to delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and use pkgdb -F but that was also useless... OK, I will use portmaster -a :)
 
Looks like the original error message showed some problems with the /usr/ports/INDEX-9 file. You can remove it and rebuild it with [cmd=]make -C /usr/ports index[/cmd].
 
Done
Code: 
make -C /usr/ports index
Generating INDEX-9 - please wait...[B]Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mtr-nox11-0.85_1[/B]
Done.
And then again:
Code: 
portupgrade -a
[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 24389 port entries found
.........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........
7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000
.........14000.........15000.........16000.........17000.........18000.........19000
....[B]/usr/ports/INDEX-9:19438:rrdmerge-0.0_b05d69bfac64: 0.0_b05d69bfac64: Not in due 
form: '<version>[_<revision>][,<epoch>]'[/B]......20000.........21000.........22000.....
....23000.........24000... ..... done]
 
Could be an error in the index, but INDEX-9 here does not have the string rrdmerge on line 19438. Could very well be a bug with portsdb, a program that is part of portupgrade.
 
Anyway, now without portupgrade –a I’m using this sequence of commands in a script in crontab for periodic software updates:
Code: 
portsnap cron update
portmaster -aBd
portaudit -Fda
 
Again: automatic port upgrades without checking /usr/ports/UPDATING for changes first will inevitably lead to problems.
 
Not directly, no. /usr/ports/UPDATING is a file of notes about changes in ports and the ports system. Some upgrade steps have to be done manually. If you skip those steps and just upgrade every package without taking those special steps, you'll end up with some ports depending on missing libraries or other problems. So before upgrading or installing new ports, always, yes always, check the new entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING.
 
RedErick said:
You are about /usr/sbin/pkg_updating?
Click to expand...

It simply shows the entries (if there are any) in UPDATING for the packages you have installed.
 
SirDice said:
It simply shows the entries (if there are any) in UPDATING for the packages you have installed.
Click to expand...

Well, it tries. There was an example recently of it not finding an entry due to wildcards being used in the entry.

Also, occasionally there are general instructions in UPDATING that don't apply to any specific port.
 
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