On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:32:23AM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hi Joe, > > >Sigh: > > Lighten up! ;-) > > >/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: > >[BUG] Bus Error > >ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] > > Have you tried replacing the portsdb-sequence with `portindex && > portindexdb`? > > So: > > - cvsup (or whatever tool you use) > - portindex > - portindexdb > - portversion -vL = (or whatever switches you use) > > The upside to using portindex is that it merges changes instead of > building the entire index every time. So your first run will take quite > some time, but your following runs will run quite a bit faster.
Another workaround is simply to set:
PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
in your environment, and then use portsdb and portupgrade as usual.
There are a number of variations on this workaround, but the other
ways of doing that involve installing some extra software.
See:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-September/015902.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-September/015922.html
Cheers,
Matthew
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