Question on bug

Hello everyone!
Hopefully this is the right area for posting this problem. Here it is:
I've been running freebsd servers for some time now and a bug started appearing roughly the time that the new /usr/ports/ports-mgmt tree appeared and the old /usr/ports/sysutils was removed. I've been trying to fix this for days, but I'm not sure how to and I think it might be a bug.
Here is what I do to get a bug:
server1: cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
server1: make deinstall package

A new package gets created in /usr/ports/packages/All.

server1: scp /usr/ports/packages/All/portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2.tbz server2:/usr/ports/packages/All

I then go to server2
server2: cd /usr/ports/packages/All
server2: pkg_add -v portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2.tbz

Here's the output I get:
extract: Package name is portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2
extract: CWD to /usr/local
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_deinstall.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_fetch.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_glob.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_sort.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkgdb.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portcvsweb.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portsclean.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portsdb.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portupgrade.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portversion.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man5/pkgtools.conf.5.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/pkg_which.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/portinstall.1.gz
extract: /usr/local/man/man1/ports_glob.1.gz
extract: execute '/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg'
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_deinstall
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_fetch
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_glob
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_sort
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_which
extract: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portcvsweb
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall
extract: /usr/local/sbin/ports_glob
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portsclean
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade
extract: /usr/local/sbin/portversion
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkg.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdbtools.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkginfo.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgmisc.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtsort.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgversion.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portinfo.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ports.rb
extract: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb
extract: /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.sample
extract: execute '[ -f /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf ] || cp /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf'
extract: /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.status-pkg.sh
extract: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_pkgtools
extract: /usr/local/share/examples/pkgtools/bash/complete.sample
extract: /usr/local/share/examples/pkgtools/tcsh/complete.sample
extract: /usr/local/share/doc/pkgtools/ChangeLog
extract: /usr/local/share/doc/pkgtools/NEWS
extract: /usr/local/share/doc/pkgtools/README
extract: execute '/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg'
extract: CWD to (null)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Note that it is trying to CWD into a null directory and that causes the core dump.

The same thing happens on my dovecot packages as well. I'm sure that others have the same problem. I don't have the option to build the port on the remote system, otherwise I would do that. I have to use a package to perform the task. Is this a bug or something in my environment that I am not seeing?

My system is a 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD system.

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