portversion -v causes ruby to core dump

[Michael Barrett]

That fixed it.  Thanks for your help.

Can I ask why this fixes it?  Just curious what's changed, and just how
things work in general :)  Thanks again.

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:43:05PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 12:58 AM -0700 9/9/04, Michael Barrett wrote:
> >
> >        /var/db/pkg/portupgrade-20040701_3
> >        /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.8.2.p2_1
> >        /var/db/pkg/ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2
> >
> >        If anyone can shed any light on what might be causing this
> >        issue, that'd be great.  I use portversion/portupgrade all the
> >        time, so it'd really suck to stop using these tools now.
> >
> >        THanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Many people are reporting this same problem.  (not everyone, but
> it is hitting a lot of people).  Try adding the following two
> lines to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf :
> 
>   ENV['PKG_DBDRIVER'] = "bdb_hash"
>   ENV['PORTS_DBDRIVER'] = "bdb_hash"
> 
> Add them down where other environment variables are set, such as
>   ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/usr/ports'
> 
> See if that helps you.
> 
> -- 
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