error in portupgrade

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:40:08 +0400
Yuri X <yks.uno at gmail.com> mentioned:

> Good daytime!
> 
> I have a trouble using portupgrade/portinstall on FreeBSD 8.1. When I 
> try to install some ports, especially with huge list of dependencies 
> (e.g. kde4), the command fails with a Ruby exception. The listing is 
> provided below. I have the most recent portupgrade 2.4.6, and my system is:
> 
> FreeBSD yntel 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug  2 16:24:27 
> MSD 2010     yks at yntel:/home/src/src/sys/amd64/compile/KERNEL_20100802  
> amd64
> 
> I also tried to "portinstall kde4" on other machines with e.g. FreeBSD 
> 8.0 or FreeBSD 8.1/i386, and it always resulted in the same exception. 
> This also happens with different ports, I can not exactly remember which 
> but there were a few, so it's likely not "kde4"-specific.
> 

Hi!

It looks like there's some inconsistency in your package db.
Can you try portupgrade-devel?

Thanks!

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE