portupgrade -faP after update to FreeBSD 7.0

[Martin Schweizer]

Hello Kent

2008/5/12, Kent <kstewart at owt.com>:
>  > >  > After successfully update to FreeBSD 7.0 (a described in the
>  > >  > handbook) I startet several times portupgrade -faP after several
>  > >  > pkgdb -F. But now I get the following error:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > portupgrade -faP
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgversion.rb:41:in `initialize':
>  > >  > ,2: Not in due form: '<version>[_<revision>][,<epoch>]'.
>  > >  > (ArgumentError)
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:638:in `new'
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:638:in `main'
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:613:in `each'
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:613:in `main'
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:588:in `catch'
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:588:in `main'
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1303:in `call'
>  > >  >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1303:in
>  > >  > `parse_in_order' ... 7 levels...
>  > >  >         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:2173
>  > >  >
>  > >  > I checked the portupgrade version and also ruby but did not find any
>  > >  > mistakes. What do I wrong?
>  > >
>  > > I am assuming that 7.0 has changed ruby/portupgrade processing. There
>  > >  have been problems like this when ruby and the ruby??_bdb? get out of
>  > >  sequence. I would delete portupgrade and ruby\* and then rebuild
>  > >  everything including the index.db.
>  > >
>  > >  You may get a different answer tomorrow but if rebuilding everything
>  > >  works, you could be half way to being done.
>  >
>  > I deleted all ruby ports (as I got from pkg_info) and I also fetch
>  > /usr/ports/INDEX-/ by makeing make index and by make fetchindes (both
>  > get the same results). But I still get the same error.
>  > What do you mean exactly with "I would delete portupgrade and ruby\*
>  > and then rebuild everything including the index.db."? The same as I
>  > did?

>
> The index-?.db has gotten messed up several times after some updates. My
>  experience was that you have to get portupgrade and ruby in sync and then use
>  portsdb -fu to rebuild the database.

I created the INDEX-7.db by  portsdb -fu and yes, portupgrade and ruby
are in sync.

>  Your error looks like a mismatch between portupgrade and ruby. Did you
>  manually rebuild portupgrade?

Yes I did it with make and then make install

Regards,

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