Crash of portsdb

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:34:23PM +0200, gareth wrote:
> On Mon 2004-09-13 (17:01), Matthew Seaman wrote:

> > Otherwise, there's a nice simple low impact workaround:
> > 
> >     # setenv PORTS_DBDRIVER bdb1_hash
 
> i gave that a shot ta, & it fixed portsdb, but then i get this:
> 
> # portversion
> [Failed `inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11733 port entries found .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000......./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd5]

Yes.  You have to set that environment variable *every time* you use
any of the portupgrade(1) tools, which includes portversion(1) and
portsdb(1).

You can set it from within /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf if you want --
saves having to keep remembering to do that.  Just add:

    ENV['PORTS_DBDRIVER'] = 'bdb1_hash' 

to that file: right after the whole block of other ENV stuff is a good
place.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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