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Date:      Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:50:51 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Tankko <tankko@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portversion and sudo
Message-ID:  <447j2un978.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7fec743f0607020826ge606b94t9a6bdbda1bd6a4d2@mail.gmail.com> (tankko@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 2 Jul 2006 08:26:38 -0700")
References:  <7fec743f0607020826ge606b94t9a6bdbda1bd6a4d2@mail.gmail.com>

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Tankko <tankko@gmail.com> writes:

> I have two machines running the same version of 5.3, and all ports are
> current on both, but, on one of the machines, if I run "portversion" I
> get this:
>
> undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
> /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-freebsd5]
>
> Abort trap
>
> If I run "sudo portversion", it works.
>
> Does anyone know why I can run "portversion" on one of the machines
> and have to run "sudo portversion" on the other?

Need to remove and rebuild the index database?

> I can run pkg_version of either machine without sudo.

Very different situation, so it doesn't tell you very much.



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