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| author | Michael Nottebrock <lofi@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-11-18 02:47:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Nottebrock <lofi@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-11-18 02:47:44 +0000 |
| commit | 4ea76c5ed59e448f4684e1fd912ac88ad1ffb46a (patch) | |
| tree | 91fcfa856475ea3d7374ff2b545c24a54030c309 /UPDATING | |
| parent | e9bbcd1c304201b5de1d939f3ce0b262755649b0 (diff) | |
| download | ports-4ea76c5ed59e448f4684e1fd912ac88ad1ffb46a.tar.gz ports-4ea76c5ed59e448f4684e1fd912ac88ad1ffb46a.zip | |
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@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@ You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20041118: + AFFECTS: users of sysutils/portupgrade + AUTHOR: lofi@freebsd.org + + portsdb(1) is part of the portupgrade suite and is used to convert a ports + INDEX file to a binary INDEX.db database. By default, it uses the libc-builtin + berkeley db to do so, which has a buggy btree implementation. + + If you see errors like "[BUG] Segmentation fault" while a portsdb update is + in progress, adjust the PORTS_DBDRIVER variable (in your environment or in + pkgtools.conf) to either bdb_hash or bdb_btree (the latter requires you to install + the sysutils/ruby-bdb port). + 20041116: AFFECTS: users of www/bricolage AUTHOR: ports@rbt.ca |