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

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:32:23AM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> >Sigh:
> 
> Lighten up! ;-)
> 
> >/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587:
> >[BUG] Bus Error
> >ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4]
> 
> Have you tried replacing the portsdb-sequence with `portindex && 
> portindexdb`?
> 
> So:
> 
> - cvsup (or whatever tool you use)
> - portindex
> - portindexdb
> - portversion -vL = (or whatever switches you use)
> 
> The upside to using portindex is that it merges changes instead of 
> building the entire index every time. So your first run will take quite 
> some time, but your following runs will run quite a bit faster.

Another workaround is simply to set:

    PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash

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

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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