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On Jul 9, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING?
>

The last change I found mentioned the use of libc and the  
PORTSDB_DRIVER. I made that change ages ago and have tried the other  
variants to get around this.



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