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| author | Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-11-18 09:39:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-11-18 09:39:29 +0000 |
| commit | cb9222c948be31b8134cfd6746e463b5ba31860d (patch) | |
| tree | 598aa8802a4c87a734fb08a95255de8d05886af2 /UPDATING | |
| parent | e1663fc8751356ea85adbc3d09fe87d99629531f (diff) | |
| download | ports-cb9222c948be31b8134cfd6746e463b5ba31860d.tar.gz ports-cb9222c948be31b8134cfd6746e463b5ba31860d.zip | |
Add annotation to describe which releases are affected by this problem
(20041118 entry).
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=121858
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -11,13 +11,17 @@ upgrades. 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. + 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). + pkgtools.conf) to either bdb_hash or bdb_btree (the latter requires you to + install the sysutils/ruby-bdb port). + + This problem was fixed in 5.3-RELEASE, but users of 4.10-RELEASE and + 5.2.1-RELEASE (and older releases) will find fixes by updating to the + latest (at least after Sep 20) of RELENG_4 or RELENG_5. 20041116: AFFECTS: users of www/bricolage |