From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 02:08:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B743C16A41F for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:08:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CC843D49 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:08:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FIyxB-000KlY-Uz; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:08:06 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com) by roam.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FIyxA-000OKk-S5; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:08:04 -1000 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17430.9604.354593.968868@roam.psg.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:08:04 -1000 To: "Donald J. O'Neill" References: <17428.48090.416936.142264@roam.psg.com> <200603130644.04315.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <17429.38749.849413.396269@roam.psg.com> <200603131753.15083.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:08:07 -0000 >> # portupgrade mail/exim-monitor >> [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 >> packages found (-534 +534) (...)[Updating the pkgdb >> in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 packages found (-534 >> +534) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:466: [BUG] >> Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-freebsd7] > Use 'portversion -v |grep needs' instead of 'portsdb -Uu' # portversion -v [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 packages found (-534 +534) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:466: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-freebsd7] Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) as i said, i suspect a broken data structure in a file. but what do i know? and, until one finds the bugs, suspicions are cheap, especially those of folk such as i who have not spent time to look at the code. > Wait a minute, what version of FreeBSD are you using? When was > the last time you cvsup'd your ports tree? Why aren't you using > portsnap? -current as of two days ago. i don't use portsnap because i use cvsup and it is not clear to me that portsnap gets me more than cvsup does, i.e. the ports tree. am i missing something here? > I thought I was doing a quick help. I don't want this turning into a 3 > or 4 week debacle like the last couple I've been involved in. So, > answer the questions, and anything else that would be a big help, like: > just what is it you want to accomplish. If you answer all the > questions, and I continue to help you, there may be other things I need > to know. i am missing the technical question here. is there some url for an oath of fealty i am missing? randy