portversion/portupgrade

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:21:44AM +0200, Thomas Moestl wrote:
> On Wed, 2003/05/28 at 15:02:15 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:55:09PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > At 2:47 PM -0700 5/28/03, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > >On Wed, May 28, 2003, Talbot, Paul wrote:
> > > > >
> > > >> Hello all...
> > > >>
> > > > > I have an issue with portversion and portupgrade (20030427) on
> > > > > my Ultra 10....
> > > > >
> > > > > After running the 'portsdb -Uu' command, I get the following
> > > > > output from portversion and portupgrade:
> > > > >
> > > >>	localhost# portversion
> > > >>	** No package matching '*' was found.
> > > >>	localhost#
> > > >>
> > > >>	localhost# portupgrade -a
> > > >>	** No such package '*' is installed.
> > > >>	localhost#
> > > >
> > > >Yes, this is known to be broken.  knu is aware of it, but seems
> > > >to be too busy to fix it.  If there are any other ruby hackers
> > > >out there who are familiar with the ruby internals, fixing this
> > > >would be a great help.
> > > 
> > > Do you know if this a bug in ruby itself, or is it only in
> > > portversion && portupgrade?  Is it only happening on sparc64?
> > 
> > It's apparently a bug in ruby on sparc64.  I don't think the bug
> > exists on other 64-bit platforms, so it might be an endianness bug.
> 
> I believe that this is fixed in ruby-devel.

Hmm, I thought knu made a change to bsd.ruby.mk some time ago that
switched sparc64 over to using ruby-devel, but the problem persists
with freshly-built ports.

Kris
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