INN users beware of ino_t change FreeBSD 11 to 12

[Adam Weinberger]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 4:40 PM Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
>
> User of INN (news/inn) should be aware of an issue when upgrading
> from FreeBSD 11 to 12 with an existing news spool.
>
> If the overview database is in the tradindexed format, which is the
> default, the group.index file consists of records with an ino_t
> member.  FreeBSD 12 has changed the size of the ino_t type, causing
> an incompatible change in the database format.
>
> In my case, both innd and makehistory -O would hang on startup and
> spin in a busy loop.
>
> To fix this, first truncate the overview/group.index file to size
> zero and only then regenerate the history and overview databases
> with makehistory -O.

Hi Christian,

Thanks for this! Can you please add this to /usr/ports/UPDATING?

# Adam


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