bind: Not in due form: <name>-<version>

[Jonathan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Sent: 04 May 2003 01:07
> To: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: bind: Not in due form: <name>-<version>
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking at a server for a customer and one of the 
> requests was the try and get all the ports into order.
> 
> I've created a brand new ports tree (the old one was 
> corrupted/deleted/bungled a long time ago apparently) and 
> when running pkgdb -F I get the following:
> 
> su-2.03# pkgdb -F
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> Missing origin: 32upgrade-2000.02.02
> bind: Not in due form: <name>-<version>
> 
> When trying to portupgrade -R trafshow I get this:
> 
> su-2.03# portupgrade -R trafshow
> bind: Not in due form: <name>-<version>

Hi,

To answer my own question, there was a package called "bind" which I am
assuming is from long gone days - I think this server started life as a
3.2-RELEASE machine. I deleted /var/db/pkg/bind (having backed it up) and
the problem has gone away.

At the moment, there seem to be a lot of things written about ports and
portupgrade and pkgdb etc. Is there a decent guide to this anywhere? I've
seen plenty written about how to use it, but the choice of what to do with
missing origins and the like seems to be a black art.

And what's the approved way of upgrading MySQL3 to MySQL4 for instance? Is
it simply a case of removing 3 and installing 4 or is there something better
suited?

Regards,

Jonathan