failure portsdb

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:04:12PM +0100, Thomas Welz wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I have a problem with my ports. If I try to use commands like portsdb or
> portupgrade I get the following message.
> 
> localhost# portsdb -F
> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:35:in `require': No such file to load --pkgtools
> (LoadError)
>         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:35
> localhost#
> 
> What have I done? How can I repair it?

The default version of Ruby changed from 1.6 to 1.8, which tends to
break the portupgrade tools.  To fix things, follow the instructions
in the commit message here:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/ruby18/Makefile?rev=1.72&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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