INN users beware of ino_t change FreeBSD 11 to 12

[The Doctor]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 04:49:59PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 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
> 
>

I can test a patch for Inn CURRENT and STABLE if you like

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