> Have you checked your /var/db/pkg/<port_name>/+CONTENTS files? For some > reason some ports on my relatively stale -CURRENT box had these files > truncated to zero length, and this caused some package tools (namely > pkg_version) to crash. The procedure to read plist simply returns with > all plist struct members set to zero without indicating any errors when > CONTENTS file is empty, and the pkg_version crashes trying to > defererence null 'origin' pointer.
This is exactly the problem I'm seeing and would explain why portupgrade -f fixes the problem for the port that causes the segfault. Shouldn't pkg_version handle this a little more gracefully? -- David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
