pkgdb format

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:55 pm, eoghan wrote:
> Hello
> Ive recently upgraded to 6.0 and I decided to upgrade my ports... So
> I ran a:
> portupgrade -af
> Its running fine, but each time its upgrade a port I get:
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... Failed
> `Inappropriate file type or format'; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the
> pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 439 packages found (-0
> +439)
>
> Just wondering if its to do with my upgrade to 6.0 (from 5.4)
> Thanks


Not from my experience. You are setting the package database interface 
one way in one spot and using the default someplace else. Since they 
are incompatible, it has to rebuild the port data base. Look for the 
string bdb in your scripts and in pkgtools.conf.

Kent

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