Adam Weinberger:
> > User of INN (news/inn) should be aware of an issue when upgrading
> > from FreeBSD 11 to 12 with an existing news spool.
>
> Thanks for this! Can you please add this to /usr/ports/UPDATING?
I can do that. Is UPDATING the right place? I also considered
pkg-message, but if you install lots of packages, like I did,
important notices get lost in all the spam about lack of maintainer
etc.
Here's what I have for UPDATING. I picked the 12.0 release date
as date. The sample command is very convoluted, but the port can
be built with different layouts and if you execute su -fm as root,
you'll get csh.
--------------------
20181211:
AFFECTS: users of news/inn when upgrading to FreeBSD 12
AUTHOR: na...@freebsd.org
When upgrading from FreeBSD 11 to 12, a change in the size of the
ino_t type causes a binary incompatibility in the overview database
if the default tradindexed format is used.
After upgrading the inn package, remove the overview/group.index
file and regenerate the history and overview database with
makehistory(8) before starting innd.
# echo '. /usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars && \
rm -f $OVERVIEWDIR/group.index && \
$NEWSBIN/makehistory -O -s `wc -l <$HISTORY`' | \
su -fm news -c '/bin/sh -s'
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
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