portversion error

[Vince Hoffman]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Petre Bandac wrote:

> xxl# portversion | grep "<"
> [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb
> <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11731 port entries found
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000......
> ...6000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
> portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Bus Error
> ruby 1.8.1 (2004-05-02) [i386-freebsd5]
>
> Abort (core dumped)
> xxl#

I asked this umm yesterday i think.  so i quote


>Gawd.  Not this *again*.  Did you try searhing the web at all?
>
> 
>http://freebsd.rambler.ru/srch?old_q=3D%5BBUG%5D+Bus+Error+%3E+ruby+1.8.%3D2+%282004-07-29%29+%5Bi386-freebsd5%5D+solution&words=%5BBUG%5D+Bus+Error+%3E+ruby+1.8.%3D2+%282004-07-29%29+%5Bi386-freebsd5%5D+solution&set=freebsdB
>Anyhow, a work-around is to:

>    % setenv PORTS_DBDRIVER=3Dbdb1_hash

>and then do all your portupgrade stuff as usual. =20

>The problem is with the bdb1_btree functions in the base system.  A
>fix has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_4 and RELENG_5.  It won't be
>applied to RELENG_5_2, so either you're going to have to extract the
>patch yourself and apply it manually, or you can upgrade to one of the
>5.3-BETAs.


>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/db/btree/bt_split.c.=
>diff?r1=3D1.5&r2=3D1.7


Vince
(with thanks to Mathew Seaman ;)


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> how can I fix that ?
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