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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:54:25 -0700
From:      The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, inn-users@isc.org
Subject:   Re: INN users beware of ino_t change FreeBSD 11 to 12
Message-ID:  <20181225235425.GA56579@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwcgyS0c1rrPpB5vSfMC=%2Bg2O%2Bi-i1PKVaK0yMydd%2B6jo%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <slrnq25fqb.6gs.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <CAP7rwcgyS0c1rrPpB5vSfMC=%2Bg2O%2Bi-i1PKVaK0yMydd%2B6jo%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 04:49:59PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 4:40 PM Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> >
> > User of INN (news/inn) should be aware of an issue when upgrading
> > from FreeBSD 11 to 12 with an existing news spool.
> >
> > If the overview database is in the tradindexed format, which is the
> > default, the group.index file consists of records with an ino_t
> > member.  FreeBSD 12 has changed the size of the ino_t type, causing
> > an incompatible change in the database format.
> >
> > In my case, both innd and makehistory -O would hang on startup and
> > spin in a busy loop.
> >
> > To fix this, first truncate the overview/group.index file to size
> > zero and only then regenerate the history and overview databases
> > with makehistory -O.
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Thanks for this! Can you please add this to /usr/ports/UPDATING?
> 
> # Adam
> 
>

I can test a patch for Inn CURRENT and STABLE if you like

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