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authorkuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org>2004-11-18 17:39:29 +0800
committerkuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org>2004-11-18 17:39:29 +0800
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AUTHOR: lofi@freebsd.org
portsdb(1) is part of the portupgrade suite and is used to convert a ports
- INDEX file to a binary INDEX.db database. By default, it uses the libc-builtin
- berkeley db to do so, which has a buggy btree implementation.
+ INDEX file to a binary INDEX.db database. By default, it uses the
+ libc-builtin berkeley db to do so, which has a buggy btree implementation.
If you see errors like "[BUG] Segmentation fault" while a portsdb update is
in progress, adjust the PORTS_DBDRIVER variable (in your environment or in
- pkgtools.conf) to either bdb_hash or bdb_btree (the latter requires you to install
- the sysutils/ruby-bdb port).
+ pkgtools.conf) to either bdb_hash or bdb_btree (the latter requires you to
+ install the sysutils/ruby-bdb port).
+
+ This problem was fixed in 5.3-RELEASE, but users of 4.10-RELEASE and
+ 5.2.1-RELEASE (and older releases) will find fixes by updating to the
+ latest (at least after Sep 20) of RELENG_4 or RELENG_5.
20041116:
AFFECTS: users of www/bricolage