Ich habe eben einen neuen PC aufgesetzt und wunderte mich beim ersten portupgrade ueber folgenden fehler:

%portupgrade -ai

--->  Session started at:  01 Feb 2007 17:23:15 +0000
[missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in
/usr/ports ... - 15487 port entries found
.........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000........
.7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........1300
                0.........14000.........15000....
..... done]
missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!
--->  Session ended at: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:44:50 +0000 (consumed 00:00:05)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': database
file error (PortsDB::DBError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in `all_depends_list'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084

Loesung: seit heute ist die neue Version von portupgrade 2.2.2_2,2 drausen. Einfach portupgrade deinstallieren, und die neue version ueber die ports ziehen, danach laeuft es wieder wie gewohnt