portupgrade core dump fix?

[Kent Stewart]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> "dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>    New install of a 5.2.1 system, ports tree cvsupped to the latest. I was
>>wondering if the problem with pkgdb core dumping with portupgrade is still
>>occurring? If so, is there another port maintence tool equivalent? I was
>>really not happy when the portindex port was withdrawn.
> 
> 
> The actual bug is in the base system, not portupgrade.  It *has* been
> fixed in the base system, so you could upgrade that...
> 

IIRC, it wasn't considered a security problem and didn't get updated in 
the older releases.

Kent

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