Package deinstall woes since new portupgrade arrived

[Tobias]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Tobias <tobiash at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy freebsd-questions - almost every day I run a "portupgrade --batch
> -rav" over my installed packages on my "FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0" system. Two
> days ago I noticed that portupgrade itself was updated and that subsequent
> packages had troubles updating.
>
> Here's a sample for a "portupgrade --batch -rav" run:
> ...
> ===>  Building for p5-Set-IntSpan-1.15
> cp IntSpan.pm blib/lib/Set/IntSpan.pm
> Manifying blib/man3/Set::IntSpan.3
> --->  Build of math/p5-Set-IntSpan ended at: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:38:41
> -0700 (consumed 00:00:01)
> --->  Updating dependency info
> --->  Uninstallation of p5-Set-IntSpan-1.14 started at: Tue, 09 Nov 2010
> 23:38:45 -0700
> --->  Fixing up dependencies before creating a package
> --->  Backing up the old version
> --->  Uninstalling the old version
> --->  Deinstalling 'p5-Set-IntSpan-1.14'
> ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! p5-Set-IntSpan-1.14   (undefined method `nil' for "":String)
> --->  Uninstallation of p5-Set-IntSpan-1.14 ended at: Tue, 09 Nov 2010
> 23:38:56 -0700 (consumed 00:00:11)
> --->  Upgrade of math/p5-Set-IntSpan ended at: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:38:56
> -0700 (consumed 00:00:16)
> ...
>
> It appears as if the deinstall fails for some (at least to me) unknown
> reason. p5-Set-IntSpan was not updated and we end up with lots of stale
> dependencies that need to be fixed via "pkgdb -F". If I manually do a "make
> deinstall reinstall" in the port-directory then the deinstall does not have
> any issues.
>
> Does anybody know where I should be looking for a solution to the
> "(undefined method `nil' for "":String)" problem?
>
> Thanks - Tobias
>


Just in case somebody faces the same issue. I used "portdowngrade" to revert
portupgrade back to version 2.4.6_4 and then things worked as before.

Thanks - Tobias