[another "me too"] Re: portindex/portindexdb

[Joe Altman]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:24:49AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
> Another workaround is simply to set:
> 
>     PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash

This is the Berkeley, AKA Sleepycat, bdb? I ask because I am also
(suddenly) encountering the famous Exim "Failed to open DBM file
/var/spool/exim/db/retry for writing:" message. Oddly, until recently
this error was not in evidence; and prior to recently, it was in
evidence and I fixed it; prior to that failure, it (wait for it) Just
Worked[1].

I wonder if the issue as evidenced by the Exim error could possibly be
related to the ruby error? I hear, from time to time, vague rumblings
about how the bdb software seeming to annoy people.

I know one thing I've learned, and hope it is accurate: when
installing Exim (and likely any other MTA as a substitute for
Sendmail) build it from source the first time, because installing a
binary and then using portupgrade will likely cause problems down the
road.

Of course, that lesson is probably covered in an FAQ somewhere, and I
just forgot it.


> in your environment, and then use portsdb and portupgrade as usual.
> There are a number of variations on this workaround, but the other
> ways of doing that involve installing some extra software.
> 
> See:
> 
>     http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-September/015902.html    
>     http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-September/015922.html

Thanks; that last one looks interesting.

[1] So: it worked, it failed, it worked, and now, shortly before the
    ruby issue, it began to fail. My previous cure for the Exim error
    was, vis-a-vis this last failure, ineffectual.